Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Depressed, fallen in, or hollowed.
- adjective Situated beneath the surface of the water or ground; submerged.
- adjective Below a surrounding level.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sunk, in any sense.
- Situated below the general surface; below the surface, as of the sea: as, a sunken rock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic Past participle of
sink - adjective
caused , bynatural orunnatural means , to besubmerged
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a sunken area
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Examples
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That burgeoning interest in sunken treasure has an upside: a steady stream of discoveries.
Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck Annys Shin 2010
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That burgeoning interest in sunken treasure has an upside: a steady stream of discoveries.
Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck Annys Shin 2010
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That burgeoning interest in sunken treasure has an upside: a steady stream of discoveries.
Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck Annys Shin 2010
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That burgeoning interest in sunken treasure has an upside: a steady stream of discoveries.
Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck Annys Shin 2010
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You head for the backs of reservoir tributary arms, anchor, and drown minnows in sunken brushpiles, waiting for finicky spawning crappies to bite — all the while rubbing bows with scores of other anglers doing the same thing.
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You may be aware of the recent civil war in sunken R'lyeh.
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Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines.
10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002
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That afternoon the Regiment moved up a little closer to the line and was distributed in sunken roads, chalk cliffs, etc., throughout the vicinity of Roisel.
History 119th Infantry, 60th Brigade, 30th Division, U.S.A. Operations in Belgium and France, 1917-1 1918
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The ensuing intrigues waft the heroine about the world to her destiny in sunken R’lyeh while revealing that the universe is a strange amalgam of illusions.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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The ensuing intrigues waft the heroine about the world to her destiny in sunken R’lyeh while revealing that the universe is a strange amalgam of illusions.
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Appearing like trenches dragged into the earth, sunken lanes, also called hollow-ways or holloways, are centuries-old thoroughfares worn down by the traffic of time.
Holloways: Roads Tunneled into the Earth by Time Allison Meier 2021
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