sunk

4 definitions found

sunk - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sink \Sink\ (s[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. Sunk (s[u^][ng]k), or
     (Sank (s[a^][ng]k)); p. p. Sunk (obs. Sunken, -- now
     used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. Sinking.] [OE. sinken, AS.
     sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel.
     s["o]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably
     to E. silt. Cf. Silt.]
     1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend
        lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a
        stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks
        in the west.
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              I sink in deep mire.                  --Ps. lxix. 2.
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     2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the
        surface; to penetrate.
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              The stone sunk into his forehead.     --1 San. xvii.
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     3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to
        enter completely.
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              Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke
                                                    ix. 44.
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     4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the
        ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in
        strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
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              I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak.
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              He sunk down in his chariot.          --2 Kings ix.
                                                    24.
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              Let not the fire sink or slacken.     --Mortimer.
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     5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become
        diminished in volume or in apparent height.
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              The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison.
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     Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay;
          decrease; lessen.
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  Sunk \Sunk\,
     imp. & p. p. of Sink.
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     Sunk fence, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide
        lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.
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sunk - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sunk
      adj 1: doomed to extinction [syn: done for(p), ruined,
             sunk, undone, washed-up]

sunk - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "sunk":
     balled up, blue, boat-shaped, boatlike, bollixed up, bowl-shaped,
     bowllike, buggered, buggered up, cast down, cavelike, cavernous,
     concave, concaved, cooked, craterlike, crestfallen, cup-shaped,
     cupped, cymbiform, debased, dejected, depressed, dish-shaped,
     dished, dishing, dishlike, down-in-the-mouth, downcast,
     downhearted, downthrown, droopy, fallen, fouled up,
     funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, gummed up,
     hashed up, hollow, hollowed, incurved, incurving, incurvous,
     infundibular, infundibuliform, loused up, low, lowered, messed up,
     mucked up, navicular, naviform, prostrate, queered, reduced,
     retiring, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, screwed up,
     scyphate, shot, snafued, snarled up, spoonlike, submerged,
     sunken