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sunken

adjective as in depressed, hollowed; submerged

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Have you ever fallen victim to a cake with a sunken center?

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Footage on local media show the collapsed part of the building completely sunken in, with large slabs of concrete sticking out.

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Most on board were soldiers with sunken cheeks, emaciated after their years behind bars.

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"We then discovered it was a plane crash and saw the sunken hole the crash had created in the ground," she said.

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Children gaze with sunken eyes and swollen bellies, their cries of hunger echoing into a silence broken only by the roar of bombs.

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

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