Crossword clues for sunk
sunk
- Gone to the bottom
- Forced under water
- Bound to fail
- Became submerged
- Gone down
- Destroyed a destroyer
- Beyond saving
- Aussie metal band ___ Loto
- Went down, as a ship
- Sent to the ocean's floor
- Like ships on the ocean floor
- Like many ships in the Bermuda Triangle
- Like costs that can't be recovered, in economists' lingo
- Like a ship that's underwater
- Like a ship on the ocean floor
- Hit bottom
- Gone under, like a damaged ship
- Destroyed, as an armada
- "You ___ my battleship!"
- Bankrupt, so to speak
- Submerged
- Done for, familiarly
- At the ocean's bottom, as a ship
- Shipwrecked
- Bankrupted
- X'd out completely, in the game battleships
- Doomed — bored
- Gone to Davy Jones's locker
- Louis XIV beyond help?
- Tabloid king is ruined
- Went under
- Went down
- Like the Titanic
- Beyond help
- Sent to the bottom
- Like pocketed pool balls
- Out of luck
- Gone under
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
I sink in deep mire.
--Ps. lxix. -
2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
The stone sunk into his forehead.
--1 San. xvii. 49. -
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Let these sayings sink down into your ears.
--Luke ix. 4 -
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.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
--Shak.He sunk down in his chariot.
--2 Kings ix. 24.Let not the fire sink or slacken.
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To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him.
--Addison.Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.
Sunk \Sunk\, imp. & p. p. of Sink.
Sunk fence, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a past tense and past participle of sink (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of sink English)
WordNet
n. plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system; "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide" [ant: source]
a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof [syn: sinkhole, swallow hole]
a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it [syn: cesspool, cesspit, sump]
v. fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" [syn: drop, drop down]
cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor"
pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana" [syn: pass, lapse]
go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: settle, go down, go under] [ant: float]
descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" [syn: subside]
appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line" [syn: dip]
fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" [syn: slump, fall off]
fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" [syn: slump, slide down]
embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury]
See sink
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "sunk".
A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone.
In the middle walked the muezzin, on his right Selim Aga, and on the left, sunk hi thought, Nuri Bey.
Relief flooded through him when he saw the second assailant on the ground, Ager on top of him, blade sunk deep into his heart and lungs.
With Seregil hunkered down beside him, Alec scooped out the sand and uncovered a square niche sunk into the stone.
I knew if he sold his algorithm to a Japanese software company, we were sunk, so I tried to think of any way I could stop him.
After some tugging, he extracted a curved grey ancipital horn, which had punctured the spleen and sunk deep into the body.
The transportees, sunk in wretched apathy, doze or stare about in the asphyxiating miasma.
Jul, the sun, had sunk behind the trees by the time Kamoj and Lyode walked around the last bend of the road, into view of Argali House.
The moons had sunk below the horizon, and the predawn blackness was complete, save for the glow that arose from a few streetlights and from the headlights of prowl-cycles that sputtered about the city, watching the sky.
It had been proved before him this day in Court that they had taken up, that is, occupied and worked the claim, had sunk upon and traced the auriferous drift, had taken out wash-dirt, and received and shared dividends, long before the defendants had appeared upon the scene.
Madam Clement, and, without being able to utter one word, was conducted to the house of that kind benefactress, where the violence of her transports overpowered her constitution, and she sunk down upon a couch in a swoon, from which she was not easily recovered.
Finally, to fill the cup of wrath against her, she had sunk a blockader off the coast of Texas, given the slip to a Union manof-war at the Cape of Good Hope, and kept the Navy guessing her unanswered riddles for two whole years.
The captain had already got one foot in the wherry, and the watermen, equally alarmed with himself, were trying to push off, when the invaders came up, and, springing into the boat, took possession of the oars, sending Bludder floundering into the Thames, where he sunk up to the shoulders, and stuck fast in the mud, roaring piteously for help.
Neither would he tarry to take in Captain Bludder, though earnestly implored to do so by that personage, who, having in his struggles sunk deeper into the oozy bed, could now only just keep his bearded chin and mouth above the level of the tide.
But it was a sad Christmas at sea for the group, although they had sunk 11 U-boats as against 8 for Bogue, 5 for Core, 3 for Santee, and 2 each for HMS.