| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| sinking | soak or become absorbed penetrate |
| losing | Be or become deeply absorbed in (something) |
| assimilate | to absorb or become absorbed into the body, a group, the mind, etc. |
| mumpsimus | an erroneous word or spelling that, through long usage, has become absorbed into the language; an incorrect manuscript reading blindly adhered to by some scholar |
| mumpsimuses | MUMPSIMUS, an erroneous word or spelling that, through long usage, has become absorbed into the language; an incorrect manuscript reading blindly adhered to by some scholar |
