What does sunk mean?

Definitions for sunk
sʌŋksunk

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. done for(p), ruined, sunk, undone, washed-upadjective

    doomed to extinction

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Sunk

    of Sink

  2. Sunk

    of Sink

  3. Sunk

    imp. & p. p. of Sink

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sunk

    sungk, Sunken, sungk′n, pa.p. of sink.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sunk in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sunk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of sunk in a Sentence

  1. Daniele Marangoni:

    What's happening now hasn't sunk in yet.

  2. Singh Chouhan:

    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.

  3. Joseph Muscat:

    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.

  4. Everett Stern:

    These people are master spinners, and they duped the Republican Party, and they sunk Republican Party and they killed Republican Party.

  5. Lillo Brancato:

    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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