SUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunk mean? 

• SUNK (adjective)
  The adjective SUNK has 1 sense:

1. doomed to extinction

  Familiarity information: SUNK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Doomed to extinction

Synonyms:

done for; ruined; sunk; undone; washed-up

Similar:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

 Context examples 

It has sunk him, I cannot say how it has sunk him in my opinion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was not only with herself that she was sunk—but with Henry.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My companion sat in the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the deepest thought.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded—his look is frightful—I feel ashamed for him when I see him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I almost wish we’d sunk him, the little rip!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Contempt showed instantly in Womble's face. At last, beneath him in vileness, had the other sunk himself.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Holmes was sunk in profound thought, and hardly opened his mouth until we had passed Clapham Junction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he rose, and paced slowly up and down the room, his chin sunk upon his breast.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun had sunk behind a cloud-bank in the west before Sir Nigel at last gave word that the men should resume their arms and have their horses ready.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)