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Definition of Sunken
1. Adjective. Having a sunken area. "Hunger gave their faces a sunken look"
Definition of Sunken
1. a. Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.
Definition of Sunken
1. Verb. (archaic) (past participle of sink) ¹
2. Adjective. caused, by natural or unnatural means, to be submerged ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sunken
1. sink [v] - See also: sink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunken
Literary usage of Sunken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"In the fantastic composition called "The sunken Bell," which was resuscitated at
the Lyric Theatre, on February 5, 1907 (Mr. Sothern first produced that ..."
2. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
"In the fantastic composition called "The sunken Bell," which was resuscitated at
the Lyric Theatre, on February 5, 1907 (Mr. Sothern first produced that ..."
3. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"... fathoms j farther in shore the bottom is rocky. ( Weather Bay is dangerous,
having many sunken rock?, and the whol*» surge of the ocean heaving into it. ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects by Royal Institution of Naval Architects (1876)
"THE immense amount of wealth continually being lost in all parts of the world by
sunken and stranded vessels being abandoned, because of the considered ..."
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