to sink (e.g. a ship), to submerge, to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair)...

Silence (1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō)

to sink, to go under, to submerge...

sinking, foundering, going down...

sinking, subsidence

composure, calmness, self-possession...

stagnation, inactivity

floating and sinking, rise and fall, ebb and flow...

grave, sad, mournful...

kimchi, kimchee

settling down, quieting down, cooling down...

(attacking and) sinking (a ship), sending (a ship) to the bottom

sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells), precipitation, settling...

silent (esp. of the passing of the night), piercing (cold)

sinking, submerging, sinker...

contemplation, meditation

very drunk

precipitation, deposition, settlement (e.g. of sediment)

precipitation, deposition, settlement (e.g. of sediment)

sinking into obscurity, coming down in the world, being ruined...

sediment, hypostatis, sludge

sinking into deep thought, sinking to the depths, contemplation

hum, meditation, painstaking elaboration on one's poem...

ups and downs, bobbing up and down, rising and falling...

composed courage, calm courage

agarwood, aloeswood, gharuwood...

sedimentation, deposition

melancholy, gloom, depression

silent (esp. of the passing of the night), piercing (cold)

grit