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sunk

adjective as in drowned

Strongest match

Strong match

adjective as in reduced

adjective as in undone

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Example Sentences

And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship.

Cargo holds are still stocked with munition, though the weaponry sunk with the ships is still considered dangerous.

The Kentucky freshman sunk his third game-winning three-pointer in a row, launching fresh claims about his ‘clutch gene.’

Soros and his fellow Democratic heavyweights sunk millions into ACT, funding anti-Bush advertising and turnout efforts.

But how many of us, thus sunk in despair, have not been vaulted back to equilibrium by another look at Groundhog Day?

He was contemporary with Milton, and preferred before him by critics of the day, but has now sunk into oblivion.

Alessandro walked at the horses' heads, his face sunk on his breast, his eyes fixed on the ground.

His search has always hitherto been fruitless, and he has sunk back, disheartened, into the sea.

Jamestown was for a long time the capital of the state, but has sunk into ruin, and is almost desolate.

With a low moan her head sunk upon the old man's knee, and she shook and trembled with violent emotion.

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On this page you'll find 445 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sunk, such as: flawed, impaired, injured, run down, bent, and blemished.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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