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sunken 音标拼音: [s'ʌŋkən] a. 沉没的,下凹的
n.
vbl. sink的过去分词 沈没的,下凹的 sink的过去分词 sunken adj 1: having a sunken area; " hunger gave their faces a sunken look" [ synonym: { deep- set}, { sunken}, { recessed}] Sink \ Sink\ ( s[ i^][ ng] k), v. i. [ imp. { Sunk} ( s[ u^][ ng] k), or ({ Sank} ( s[ a^][ ng] k)); p. p. { Sunk} ( obs. { Sunken}, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. { Sinking}.] [ OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. s[" o] kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. { Silt}.] 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. [ 1913 Webster] I sink in deep mire. -- Ps. lxix. 2. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. [ 1913 Webster] The stone sunk into his forehead. -- 1 San. xvii. 49. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. [ 1913 Webster] Let these sayings sink down into your ears. -- Luke ix. 44. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. [ 1913 Webster] I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] He sunk down in his chariot. -- 2 Kings ix. 24. [ 1913 Webster] Let not the fire sink or slacken. -- Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. [ 1913 Webster] The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen. [ 1913 Webster]
Sunken \ Sunk" en\, a. Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk. [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " sunken": boat- shaped, boatlike, bowl- shaped, bowllike, buried, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, craterlike, cup- shaped, cupped, cymbiform, debased, depressed, dish- shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, downcast, downthrown, drawn, drowned, engulfed, fallen, flooded, funnel- breasted, funnel- chested, funnel- shaped, haggard, hollow, hollowed, immersed, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, inundated, low, lowered, navicular, naviform, prostrate, reduced, retiring, retreating, saucer- shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, settled, spoonlike, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed, sunk, underground, undersea, underwater
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