sunken

Meaning of sunken

verb
  1. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
  2. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
  3. To conceal and appropriate.
  4. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
  5. To pay absolutely.
    I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.
  6. To reduce or extinguish by payment.
    to sink the national debt
  7. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  8. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
adjective
  1. Caused, by natural or unnatural means, to be depressed (lower than the surrounding area) or submerged
    The sunken ship lay at a depth of 100 feet
  2. (of eyes or cheeks) Seeming to have fallen deeper back into the face due to tiredness, illness, or old age.
    She looked old and thin with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.

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Hyphenation of sunken

sunken

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • sunken is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

sunken synonyms

Meaning deep-set:

recessed

Meaning submerged:

submerged

Meaning :

descend, dip, dunk, submerge

Words that rhyme with sunken

Vranken, flanken, gedanken, Menken, Behnken, inken, pinken, swonken, Telefunken, countersunken, drunken, preshrunken, shrunken, slunken, undrunken, unken, unshrunken, unsunken

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