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SUNK
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Doomed to extinction
Synonyms:
done for; ruined; sunk; undone; washed-up
Classified under:
Similar:
unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb sink
Context examples:
I cannot misunderstand you, but I entreat you, dear Lizzy, not to pain me by thinking that person to blame, and saying your opinion of him is sunk.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Now he sat for some time in thought with his face sunk in his hands.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Elsie had sunk down upon the floor, and we were face to face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The remembrance seemed for a while to overpower her, and she drooped and would have sunk down but for her husband's sustaining arm.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
That was, at least, the end of that; and before noon, to my inexpressible joy, the highest rock of Treasure Island had sunk into the blue round of sea.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She knew her Browning, but it had never sunk into her that it was an awkward thing to play with souls.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
We had sunk our voices, almost to a whisper, and continued to speak in that tone.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Fanny's heart sunk, but there was no leisure for thinking long even of Miss Crawford's feelings.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Anne Elliot, so young; known to so few, to be snatched off by a stranger without alliance or fortune; or rather sunk by him into a state of most wearing, anxious, youth-killing dependence!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He had sunk down on the snow in the circle of his blood and was plainly in the last gasp.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
