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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUNK, pret. and pp. of sink.
Or toss'd by hope, or sunk by care.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: doomed to extinction [syn: done for, ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up]

Merriam Webster's

I. past and past participle of sink II. adjective Date: 1719 1. depressed in spirits 2. done for, ruined

Oxford Reference Dictionary

past and past part. of SINK.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sink Sink, v. i. [imp. Sunk, or (Sank); 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. I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2. 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49. 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44. 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. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer. 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison. Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sink Sink, v. i. [imp. Sunk, or (Sank); 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. I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2. 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49. 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44. 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. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer. 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison. Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sunk Sunk, imp. & p. p. of Sink. Sunk fence, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Sunk is the past participle of sink. 2. If you say that someone is sunk, you mean that they have no hope of avoiding trouble or failure. (INFORMAL) Without him we'd be well and truly sunk. ADJ: v-link ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

balled up, blue, boat-shaped, boatlike, bollixed up, bowl-shaped, bowllike, buggered, buggered up, cast down, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, cooked, craterlike, crestfallen, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, debased, dejected, depressed, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, down-in-the-mouth, downcast, downhearted, downthrown, droopy, fallen, fouled up, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, gummed up, hashed up, hollow, hollowed, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, loused up, low, lowered, messed up, mucked up, navicular, naviform, prostrate, queered, reduced, retiring, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, screwed up, scyphate, shot, snafued, snarled up, spoonlike, submerged, sunken