The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SINKING
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More clues leading to the result SINKING
- After moral offence, monarch is collapsing
- Crime baron maybe going down
- Porn supremo perhaps becoming less successful
- Offend royal that’s boring?
- Do a number about family going under
- Degrading pre-eminent male following ill-doing
- Confess — keeping family, and going down
- Evil ruler in decline
- Vice suprem0’s going down
- Wrong monarch in decline
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What does SINKING mean?
SINKING verb- (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
- (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
- To conceal and appropriate.
- To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
- To pay absolutely.
- To reduce or extinguish by payment.
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- The process by which something sinks.