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verba simple past tense and past participle of sink. adjectiveInformal. beyond help; done for; washed up: If they catch you cheating, you're really sunk. Nautical. (of a forecastle or poop) raised less than a full deck above the weather deck of a ship. Origin of sunkFirst recorded in 1925–30 for def. 2 OTHER WORDS FROM sunkhalf-sunk, adjectiveun·sunk, adjectiveWords nearby sunksung Mass, sun god, sun grebe, sunhat, sun hemp, sunk, sunken, sunken garden, sunket, sunk fence, Sun King Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sunkAnd my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship. How I Got Addicted to Africa (and Wrote a Thriller About It)|Todd Moss|September 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST Sunk Kathryn Miles, Outside, February 11 The incredible truth about a ship that never should have sailed. The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads of 2013||December 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST First-time unemployment claims have sunk to levels not seen since 2008. America is Not the Next Greece|Daniel Gross|October 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST One time he stood on the dock of a ship and sunk the ship just to feel what it was like to be on a sinking ship. Dane Dehaan Is Hollywood’s Homicidal Darling|Anna Klassen|October 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
By then, a Marine mindset had sunk deep in me, whereas they seemed vulnerable, and understandably so. Send in the Marines—and the Anthropologists too?|John Kael Weston|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST His advice, however, sunk deep into my mind, and has often been of singular value to me since. Parker's Second Reader|Richard G. Parker Then I was conducted to the boilers, a row of ten, sunk underground in the solid rock, below the level of the shrubbery. A Month in Yorkshire|Walter White His soldiers broke into cheers, but he sternly stopped them, with the advice to wait till the Hartford was sunk. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders|Edward S. Ellis If all unite to carry this out, small differences of opinion may at once be sunk. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism|Thomas Inman Augustine was a wild youth, sunk in vice, and a violent opposer of religion. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females|Harvey Newcomb
British Dictionary definitions for sunk
verba past participle of sink adjectiveinformal with all hopes dashed; ruinedif the police come while we're opening the safe, we'll be sunk Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sunkdig, capsize, ram, sag, plummet, disappear, go down, wreck, descend, plunge, decline, slump, drown, stick, submerge, fall, overturn, lower, drop, drive |