Translation for 'to sink' from English to Serbian

to sink

потонути [св.]

• Over time the oil has continued to sink into the sand, with potential consequences for Kuwait's small groundwater resources.
• bombs would be enough to sink the carrier. The Ju 87s delivered six and three damaging near-misses but the ship's engines were untouched and she reached the besieged harbour of Malta.
• After plant material has been agitated in an icy slush, separated trichomes are often dense enough to sink to the bottom of the ice-water mixture following agitation, while lighter pieces of leaves and stems tend to float.
• During the Cold War the Soviet Navy's cruisers had heavy anti-ship missile armament designed to sink NATO carrier task-forces via saturation attack.
• The Germans allowed the freighter's crew and passengers to board lifeboats, and prepared to sink the freighter with the U-boat's deck gun.

• They start to sink, and can only reverse this by ascending uncontrollably.
• ... , which was the first submarine to sink a ship in World War II, both scuttled in Kupfermühlen Bay on 4 May 1945).
• Conversely, the southern part has tended to sink to compensate, causing flooding of the Low Countries and Denmark.
• warhead powerful enough to sink an aircraft carrier.
• Five years later, during Operation Morvarid as part of the Iran–Iraq War, Iranian F-4s used Mavericks to sink three Osa II missile boats and four P-6 combat ships.

• Experiments conducted at the end of June and early July at Schilling, near Wilhelmshaven, showed that the submersible tanks functioned best when they were kept moving along the seabed as, if halted for any reason, they tended to sink into the seabed and remain stuck there.
• A mine's capability to sink ships makes it a credible threat, but minefields work more on the mind than on ships.
• Winter cooling and convection allow AIW to sink and pool behind the Denmark Strait.
• During the American Civil War, Mobile was a Confederate city. The "H. L. Hunley", the first submarine to sink an enemy ship, was built in Mobile.
• Over time the oil has continued to sink into the sand, with potential consequences for Kuwait's small groundwater resources.

• While Dennis Lythgoe of "Deseret News" noted that "Bergen's book lives and breathes the Vietnam experience"; Ron Charles in his "The Washington Post" review mentioned that "Bergen's ability to dramatize trauma-induced disaffection is undeniable; whether readers will want to sink down that hole with his characters is less clear".
• The resulting weight of the structures caused them to sink into the sediment of Lake Texcoco; the ruins now rest at an angle instead of horizontally.