sunk
verb/sʌŋk/
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Participle, Past past participle of sink
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Dialectal, Past past of sink
- He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.1727, Jonathan Swift, “Desire and Possession”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:
- Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; […]1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 196:
- Derived terms
- unsunk
- Related terms
- sank