Rise and Sinks

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Rise verb - To become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number.

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Sinks is an antonym for rise.

Nearby Words: rising, risen

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Rise is an antonym for sinks in topics: deteriorate, fall, fall in, be humble or humbled.

The ship turns gold and sinks, and because the Vanishing Isle had submerged and would not rise until long after and there's no other land nearby, they must have drowned.

Source: Inferred Holocaust
It happens again when Dekko is crushed by a collapsing wall and trapped as his fortress sinks, only to rise from the sea (without any legs) and rave about his immortality to seagulls before yelling at the reader.

Source: No-One Could Survive That

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