sunken
Meaning of sunken
verb
- (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
- (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
- To conceal and appropriate.
- To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
- To pay absolutely.
I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.
- To reduce or extinguish by payment.
to sink the national debt
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- 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
- (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:
Meaning submerged:
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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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