sunken
having sunk or been sunk beneath the surface; submerged.
having settled to a lower level, as walls.
situated or lying on a lower level: a sunken living room.
hollow; depressed: sunken cheeks.
Obsolete. a past participle of sink.
Origin of sunken
1Other words from sunken
- half-sunken, adjective
- un·sunk·en, adjective
Words Nearby sunken
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How to use sunken in a sentence
While the ISS is larger than most trash in the ocean, other experts are less worried about its immense size in comparison to other sunken junk.
There’s a lot we don’t know about the International Space Station’s ocean grave | Tatyana Woodall | February 23, 2022 | Popular-ScienceThis gives rise to a ring-shaped island, or smattering of islands, around the bowl of water, or lagoon, left by the sunken volcano.
Most of the graves are invisible to the naked eye or revealed only as sunken rectangular shapes.
African American gravesites detected near the Capital Beltway will be spared in road-widening plans | Katherine Shaver | September 9, 2021 | Washington PostThe work is adventurous and challenging—he’d done everything from searching for a sunken helicopter to cleaning up after the British Petroleum oil spill.
He thought sunken whale carcasses would be a good place to start.
Whales get a second life as deep-sea buffets | Stephen Ornes | October 15, 2020 | Science News For Students
He has sunken eyes and a narrow black beard speckled with gray.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow in his early thirties, his cheeks are sunken from smoking too much hash.
Obama’s Deadly Informants: The Drone Spotters of Pakistan | Umar Farooq, Syed Fakhar Kakakhel | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was a first-class lounge with a sunken well and cocktail bar.
After he disembarked the sunken ship, Schettino told reporters that he accepts responsibility for his role in the disaster.
Captain Schettino Returns to Costa Concordia Crime Scene | Barbie Latza Nadeau | February 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThen he pointed to my sunken cheeks where a couple gray whiskers poked through.
The sunken eyes, the tangled masses of raven hair, the look of exhaustion and hopeless woe.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieBeyond it, temple roofs—black keels of sunken vessels—cut a sky still powdered thick with stars.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaAnd then the salt tears flowed down his sunken cheeks and formed a pool on the floor.
The Whale and the Grasshopper | Seumas O'BrienHad the piles been hollow, or too short to reach bed-rock, it would either have sunken or tumbled.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThis morning he came up, his cheeks more sunken, his eyes more hollow.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
British Dictionary definitions for sunken
/ (ˈsʌŋkən) /
a past participle of sink
unhealthily hollow: sunken cheeks
situated at a lower level than the surrounding or usual one
situated under water; submerged
depressed; low: sunken spirits
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