sunk
pronunciation
How to pronounce sunk in British English:
UK [sʌŋk]
How to pronounce sunk in American English:
US [sʌŋk]
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- Adjective:
- doomed to extinction
Word Origin
- sunk
- a past tense and past participle of sink (v.).
Example
- 1. It may have at last sunk in with stockmarkets too .
- 2. What brought ireland down were its banks ; they have sunk the sovereign .
- 3. Now they build dugouts and bunkers , using cargo containers sunk into the ground .
- 4. The whole building has been sunk into the ground to make the tree wrapping more effective .
- 5. Most of sub-saharan africa seems to be sunk in a perpetual drought that has fed a numbing series of civil wars .