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sunken (ˈsʌŋkən Pronunciation for sunken ) 

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adjective

  1. (literary(= submerged)
    1. [ship, treasure] hundido
  2. (= hollow)
    1. [cheeks, eyes] hundido
  3. (= low)
    1. [garden, road, bath] que está a un nivel inferior or más bajo

Similar Words

= submerged, immersed, submersed
= lowered, buried, depressed, recessed, below ground, at a lower level
= hollow, drawn, haggard, hollowed, concave

sink1 (sɪŋk Pronunciation for sink1 ) 

Word forms:   past tense sank Pronunciation for sink1 ,  past participle sunk Pronunciation for sink1

Translations

transitive verb

    1. (= submerge)
      1. [+ ship] hundir
    2. (figurative(= destroy)
      1. [+ person] hundir
      2. [+ project] acabar con, dar al traste con
      3. [+ theory] destruir, acabar con
     ⇒ to be sunk (informal) estar perdido
  2. (= open up)
    1. [+ mineshaft] abrir, excavar
    2. [+ hole] hacer, excavar
    3. [+ well] perforar, abrir
  3. (= bury, lay)
      1. [+ pipe] enterrar
      2. [+ foundations] echar
       ⇒ to sink a post two metres into the ground fijar un poste dos metros bajo tierra ⇒ she sunk her face into her hands hundió la cara en las manos ⇒ his eyes were sunk deep into their sockets tenía los ojos hundidos
    2. (figurative) ⇒ to be sunk in thought estar absorto en mis etc pensamientos, estar ensimismado ⇒ to be sunk in depression estar sumido en la depresión
  4. (= forget)
    1. [+ feelings] ahogar

    idiom: let's sink our differences hagamos las paces, olvidemos nuestras diferencias

  5. (= dig in)
    1. [+ knife] hundir, clavar
    2. [+ teeth] hincar
     ⇒ I sank my knife into the cheese hundí or clavé el cuchillo en el queso ⇒ he sank his teeth into my arm me hincó los dientes en el brazo
  6. (= invest) ⇒ to sink money in or into sth invertir dinero en algo
  7. (British, informal) [+ drink] tragarse (informal)
  8. (sport)
    1. [+ ball, putt] embocar

intransitive verb

  1. [ship, object] hundirse ⇒ the body sank to the bottom of the lake el cadáver se hundió en el fondo del lago ⇒ the yeast sinks to the bottom in beer la levadura se deposita en el fondo de la cerveza ⇒ to sink out of sight desaparecer ⇒ to sink without trace (figurative) desaparecer sin dejar rastro

    idiom: to leave sb to sink or swim abandonar a algn a su suerte ⇒ we're all in the same boat and we sink or swim together todos estamos en la misma situación, y una de dos: o nos hundimos o salimos a flote juntos

  2. (= subside)
    1. [building, land] hundirse
    2. [flood waters] bajar de nivel
    3. [sun] ponerse
  3. (= slump)
    1. [person] ⇒ to sink into a chair arrellanarse en una silla, dejarse caer en una silla ⇒ to sink to one's knees caer de rodillas ⇒ I sank into a deep sleep caí en un sueño profundo ⇒ she would sometimes sink into depression a veces se sumía en la depresión ⇒ he sank deeper into debt se hundió más y más en las deudas ⇒ to sink into poverty hundirse or caer en la miseria
     ⇒ my heart sank se me cayó el alma a los pies ⇒ her spirits sank lower and lower tenía la moral cada vez más baja
  4. (= deteriorate)
    1. [sick person] ⇒ he's sinking fast está cada vez peor
  5. (= fall)
    1. (in amount, value) ⇒ the shares have sunk to three dollars las acciones han bajado a tres dólares ⇒ he has sunk in my estimation ha bajado en mi estima ⇒ his voice sank to a whisper su voz se redujo a un susurro

Compounds

Similar Words

= basin, washbasin, hand basin, wash-hand basin
= scupper, scuttle
= go down, founder, go under, submerge, capsize
= descend, lower, go down, dip, fall, disappear,
= slump, drop, flop, collapse, droop, plonk yourself, plump yourself
= fall, drop, decline, slip, plunge, plummet, subside, relapse, abate, retrogress
= drop, fall, get lower, get softer, get quieter
= stoop, descend, be reduced to, succumb, lower yourself, debase yourself, demean yourself
= decline, die, fade, fail, flag, weaken, diminish, decrease, deteriorate, decay, worsen, dwindle, lessen, degenerate, depreciate, go downhill,
= dig, bore, drill, drive, lay, put down, excavate
= invest, put in, plough, risk, lay out
= drink, down, knock back, neck, swill, quaff, polish off, gulp down
= destroy, finish, defeat, ruin, overwhelm, scupper, be the ruin of, seal the doom of

'sunken' in Other Languages

  • Brazilian Portuguese: afundado
  • Chinese: 沉没的沉没沒的
  • European Spanish: hundido hundida
  • French: englouti engloutie
  • German: versunken
  • Italian: sommerso sommersa
  • Japanese: 沈んだ
  • Korean: 침몰한
  • Portuguese: afundado afundada
  • Spanish: hundido hundida

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