Rise
Rise verb - To move or extend upward.
Usage example: mountains majestically rising towards the sky
Sink
Sink verb - To go to a lower level especially abruptly.
Usage example: I had just bought a bundle of shares of the stock when its price sank like a rock
How words are described
| old | old rise | old sink |
| high | high rise | high sink |
| complete | complete rise | complete sink |
| single | single rise | single sink |
| Other adjectives: small, actual, entire, real, massive, big, huge, new, glowing. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They return in different towns in the second with a new game, Super Lucky Dice (random dice-throwing and betting on if the value would sink or rise).
Source: Video Game / Golden Sun -
Lucky Dice (dice throwing with hands), Super Lucky Dance (random dice-throwing and betting on if the value would sink or rise) and Coin Throwing (throwing Coins and Lucky Medals into magic fountains to get coins and special items as prizes).
Source: Betting Mini-Game -
There's a sort of switchback that you have to travel through each time you want to go between Thorntail Hollow and Moon Mountain Pass, hopping on pillars that rise and sink to get across to the updrafts that push you out of it.
Source: Deadly Gas
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