What does sunk mean?
Definitions for sunk
sʌŋksunk
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Princeton's WordNet
done for(p), ruined, sunk, undone, washed-upadjective
doomed to extinction
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sunkthe preterite and participle passive of sink.
We have large caves: the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom, and some digged and made under great hills. Francis Bacon.
Thus we act and thus we are,
Or toss’d by hope or sunk by care. Matthew Prior.Sunk in Thalestris’ arms the nymph he found. Alexander Pope.
His spirit quite sunk with those reflections that solitude and disappointments bring, he is utterly undistinguished and forgotten. Jonathan Swift.
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sunk
In a general context, "sunk" typically refers to the past tense of 'sink', meaning having descended or moved below the surface or to the bottom space, especially within a liquid substance like water. Additionally, in an economic context, "sunk" can refer to sunk cost, implying costs that have already been incurred and cannot be retrieved or recovered.
Webster Dictionary
Sunk
of Sink
Sunk
of Sink
Sunk
imp. & p. p. of Sink
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sunk
sungk, Sunken, sungk′n, pa.p. of sink.
Anagrams for sunk »
skun
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sunk in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sunk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of sunk in a Sentence
What's happening now hasn't sunk in yet.
Singh Chouhan wasn't very injured but the leopard's teeth had sunk into Singh Chouhan. Singh Chouhan was admitted to a hospital and Singh Chouhan is completely fine now.
Today Gozo Island has lost one of its iconic beauties, the inevitable and the much feared has happened. The flagship of the Gozitan touristic sites has sunk in its same birth place from where for thousands of years, it stood high and proud heralding one of the natural beauties our little island is endowed with.
These people are master spinners, and they duped the Republican Party, and they sunk Republican Party and they killed Republican Party.
They were saying, ‘ What were you thinking ? We love you. We want to see you get better. ’ … And for some reason on that day, something just sunk in. And I just decided that day when they left, and I was being escorted back to my cell, I just made that decision in my mind I can never, ever have another drink or another drug in my life.
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- versenktGerman
- hundidoSpanish
- غرق شدPersian
- upposiFinnish
- couléFrench
- խորտակվածArmenian
- tenggelamIndonesian
- senketNorwegian
- afundadoPortuguese
- затонувUkrainian
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