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sunk

[suhngk] / sʌŋk /








ADJECTIVE
drowned
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For owners Simon and Michelle Orange, who have sunk considerable capital into the club, a European run would at least be some return on the season.

From BBC

In the past two weeks, the idea has sunk in that damage to global energy supplies won’t quickly be reversed.

From MarketWatch

This was a measure of how low defence and security had fallen in the nation's priorities - and a measure, too, of the complacency into which much of Europe had sunk.

From BBC

One has to wonder if the quarter-final and the emotion of that - a visibly emotional Rock sunk to his knees at the end - took too much out of him.

From BBC

One of the most famous incidents involved the whaleship Essex, a 27m sailing vessel that was reportedly sunk by two direct strikes from a large bull sperm whale near the Galapagos in 1820.

From Science Daily