hundir
hundirse
collapse
founder
go under
subside
plummet
hit + the wall
There is no danger that the scheme will collapse for lack of central organization.
It is that, without direction, the library craft may founder in the perpetual whitewater.
Many of them are likely to go under in the next wave of economic recession.
Her agitation subsided suddenly.
The costs of retrieval and distribution of information have plummeted and may be further reduced in future.
These figures confirm that the jobs market has hit the wall.
hundirse bajo el peso de
collapse under + the weight of
He dismissed the image of overloaded libraries collapsing under the weight of a surfeit of paper as 'mythology'.
hundirse en [Verbo irregular: pasado sank, participio sunk]
sink into
lapse into
dig into
This town library was in the latter part of the 17th century permitted to sink 'into careless guardianship and ultimate neglect' = A finales del siglo XVII no se hizo nada por evitar que esta biblioteca municipal se sumiese "en la negligencia y en el abandono total".
Although he occasionally lapses into a sort of clotted prose, his book is a valuable study of McLuhan's cultural and geographical context.
His sharp nails dug into her skin as he pulled her out from the ditch.
hundirse en la miseria
sink into + depression
sink into + poverty
This was a crushing blow to European economies, which were already sinking into depression.
The poorest layer of the population is predominantly black, although an increasing number of white households are rapidly sinking into poverty.
hundirse la moral
morale + plummet
She said that morale would plummet among the rest of the staff if I permitted him to get away with taking off the way he did yesterday.
hundirse por el peso
bog down
Gangplanks should be used to prevent the scalar chain from bogging down.
hundirse por su propio peso
sink under + its own weight
The Great War of 1914-18 was a heavy blow for the Bulletin, from which it never really recovered, and in the 1920s it gradually sank under its own weight, helped by a forced move from its previous quarters to make room for a trade fair.
que se está hundiendo
sinking
Other boats lay on their oars in the vicinity of the sinking ship, a few survivors being rescued from the water.
