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sunk

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sunk  (sngk)
v.
A past tense and the past participle of sink.
sunk [sʌŋk]
vb
a past participle of sink
adj
Informal with all hopes dashed; ruined if the police come while we're opening the safe, we'll be sunk
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Adj.1.sunksunk - doomed to extinction                
washed-up, done for, ruined, undone
unsuccessful - not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome
sunk
adjective ruined, lost, finished, done for (informal), on the rocks, dead in the water (informal), all washed up (informal), up the creek without a paddle (informal) Without him we'd all be well and truly sunk.
Translations
sunk, sunken sink


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Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
They sunk our fishing-boat and brought us both on to this ship.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Lofting, Hugh View in context
If we ARE to part, it will at least be handsome to take your personal leave--but I have little heart to jest; in truth, I am serious enough; for to be sunk, though but for an hour, in your esteem Is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit.
Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context
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