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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sunken
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
buried/hidden/sunken treasure
sunken (=having fallen inwards, especially because of age or illness)
▪ The man's eyes were sunken, with deep black rings around them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cheek
▪ The grey skin; the red-rimmed eyes; the sunken cheeks.
▪ Fitzosbert's sunken cheeks were liberally rouged and this made his bulbous grey eyes seem even more fish-like.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sunken ships
▪ a sunken living room
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After Charlotte's death in 1943, the villagers all noticed how extraordinarily frail and sunken Shaw looked.
▪ Black sunken eyes like dried figs.
▪ His eyes were dark and sunken.
▪ In one corner there is a sunken jacuzzi with a young person in it, moving sinuously in the bubbling waters.
▪ Lastly it is worth noting any usual features like sunken logs, projecting tree roots and big boulders.
▪ The church had to be located out of sight in a sunken cul-de-sac west of the village street.
▪ The inspector looked at his sunken head with compassion.
▪ The three arc-lamps had come to rest athwart the sunken bomber, sharply illuminating the fuselage and the two wings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunken

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.

    I sink in deep mire.
    --Ps. lxix.

  2. 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.

  3. 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. 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.
    --Mortimer.

  5. 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.

Sunken

Sunken \Sunk"en\, a. Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sunken

late 14c., past participle adjective from sink (v.).

Wiktionary
sunken
  1. caused, by natural or unnatural means, to be depressed (lower than the surrounding area) or submerged v

  2. (context archaic English) (past participle of sink English)

WordNet
sunken
  1. adj. having a sunken area; "hunger gave their faces a sunken look" [syn: deep-set, recessed]

  2. under water; e.g. at the bottom of a body of water; "sunken treasure"; "a sunken ship" [syn: submerged] [ant: afloat(p), aground(p)]

sink
  1. n. plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe

  2. (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]

  3. 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]

  4. a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it [syn: cesspool, cesspit, sump]

  5. v. fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" [syn: drop, drop down]

  6. cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor"

  7. pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana" [syn: pass, lapse]

  8. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: settle, go down, go under] [ant: float]

  9. descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" [syn: subside]

  10. appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line" [syn: dip]

  11. fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" [syn: slump, fall off]

  12. fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" [syn: slump, slide down]

  13. embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury]

  14. [also: sunken, sunk, sank]

sunken

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Wikipedia

Usage examples of "sunken".

The journey took several minutes even at a sprint, through sunken tunnels and window-lined connecting bridges, up and down grilled ramps, through ponderous internal airlocks and sweltering aeroponics labs, taking this detour or that to avoid a blown bubble or failed airlock.

I saw also the ruins of incredible sunken cities, and the wealth of crinoid, brachiopod, coral, and ichthyic life which everywhere abounded.

Its unkempt fur stuck out in brown clumps on its sunken sides and hung in tufts from its lean haunches.

Beith in a disheveled robe and unkempt hair, her red eyes rimmed with sunken bags.

Akeela waited patiently until finally the door opened, revealing Beith in a disheveled robe and unkempt hair, her red eyes rimmed with sunken bags.

They reminded him a bit of the Fetchers, though these were tall and skinny and somewhat more human-looking, though their eyes were red and sunken, and their faces thin and pallid.

I am in the area and Fuji properly situated, but the torii must be long gone and I have no way of knowing whether there is a sunken temple out there.

The bike dipped suddenly into the sunken lot, leaving her stomach somewhere in the region of her throat-God, she loved that sensation and zipped out the other side, onto Gaskin Road.

The Groaners were some ragged low rocks, off one of the points, and Sunken Reef was a wide ledge about ten fathoms deep.

He opened his eyes and saw her: She was ancient, her age-loose flesh leaf-brown, her huge, dark eyes milky around the edges, sunken, hooded with immedicable sorrow.

Sunken into the lintel of its arched doorway was a sizable ward, made up of intricate knotwork patterns etched into a bronze plate.

We talked of laving ourselves and sunken baths would be filled with pleasant waters.

Just as the Azores are believed to be the last high peaks of Atlantis, so hints came to me steadily that Ponape and Lele and their basalt bulwarked islets were the last points of the slowly sunken western land clinging still to the sunlight, and had been the last refuge and sacred places of the rulers of that race which had lost their immemorial home under the rising waters of the Pacific.

Her left hand, in which she held her lorgnette, had fallen to her side, and with the finger-tips of her right she daintily caressed the hollows of her sunken cheeks.

Sofia, pausing unseen and unsuspected in the darkness just outside the doorway, could see him slouching deep in his chair, to one side of the table, his soft fat hands deep in the pockets of his trousers, his chin sunken on his chest, something dogged in the louring frown which he was bending upon nothing, something of genuine indifference in his passive attitude toward the blowsy virago who was leaning across the table the better to spit vituperation at him.