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sunken

/suhng-kuhn/US // ˈsʌŋ kən //UK // (ˈsʌŋkən) //

沉没的,沉没,沉沉的,沉陷的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having sunk or been sunk beneath the surface; submerged.
    • : having settled to a lower level, as walls.
    • : situated or lying on a lower level: a sunken living room.
    • : hollow; depressed: sunken cheeks.
v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Obsolete. a past participle of sink.

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Examples

  • Most of the graves are invisible to the naked eye or revealed only as sunken rectangular shapes.

  • The work is adventurous and challenging—he’d done everything from searching for a sunken helicopter to cleaning up after the British Petroleum oil spill.

  • He thought sunken whale carcasses would be a good place to start.

  • He has sunken eyes and a narrow black beard speckled with gray.

  • Now in his early thirties, his cheeks are sunken from smoking too much hash.

  • There was a first-class lounge with a sunken well and cocktail bar.

  • After he disembarked the sunken ship, Schettino told reporters that he accepts responsibility for his role in the disaster.

  • Then he pointed to my sunken cheeks where a couple gray whiskers poked through.

  • The sunken eyes, the tangled masses of raven hair, the look of exhaustion and hopeless woe.

  • Beyond it, temple roofs—black keels of sunken vessels—cut a sky still powdered thick with stars.

  • And then the salt tears flowed down his sunken cheeks and formed a pool on the floor.

  • Had the piles been hollow, or too short to reach bed-rock, it would either have sunken or tumbled.

  • This morning he came up, his cheeks more sunken, his eyes more hollow.