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sunken (root: sink)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sunken has 1 sense
- sunken(s = adj.all) deep-set, recessed - having a sunken area; "hunger gave their faces a sunken look"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sunken, adj.
1 that has been sunk.
2 beneath the surface; submerged.
3 (of the eyes, cheeks, etc.) hollow, depressed.
1 that has been sunk.
2 beneath the surface; submerged.
3 (of the eyes, cheeks, etc.) hollow, depressed.
Idiom
sunken garden a garden placed below the general level of its surroundings.
Etymology
past part. of SINK
THESAURUS
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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