Word Finder - sunk

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(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.

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(heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.

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To conceal and appropriate.

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To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

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To pay absolutely.

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I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.

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To reduce or extinguish by payment.

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to sink the national debt

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To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

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To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

The stones were sunk in the sand now, covered by a couple inches of water.

The Turks were almost all sunk or driven on shore.

A great number of wells were also sunk and rain-water was stored in cisterns.

The floors of both crypts have sunk considerably and are often under water; this settlement accounts for the inequalities of the pavement.

A very common function of hairs is to diminish transpiration, by creating a still atmosphere between them, as in the case of the sunk stomata already mentioned.

The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation.

But to his surprise Willarski soon noticed that Pierre had lagged much behind the times, and had sunk, as he expressed it to himself, into apathy and egotism.

Her face had shriveled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim.

It is probable that the limpet takes several years to attain full growth, and during that period it frequents the same spot, which becomes gradually sunk below the surrounding surface, especially if the rock be carbonate of lime.

When a ship is sunk the player must announce it.

The sense-organs are tentaculocysts which are usually enclosed in vesicles and may be sunk far below the surface.

Except at the shafts, which were sunk on proposed station sites, there was no interference with the surface of the streets or with street traffic during construction.

She was therefore abandoned and sunk.

Second, the general subsidence of the coast has sunk the lower-lying parts of the ancient town under water.

Sometimes in silty river beds they are sunk ioo ft.

Tucking his legs under him and dropping his head he sat down on the cold ground by the wheel of the cart and remained motionless a long while sunk in thought.

Belleville is in a rich agricultural region, and in the vicinity there are valuable coal mines, the first of which was sunk in 1852; from this dates the industrial development of the city.

In the older type the combustion chamber (of metal or glass) is sunk in the calorimeter proper, tubes being provided for the entrance and exit of the gaseous substances involved in the action.

On the 12th 1 The Mussulman population, 88,000 in 1895, had sunk to 40,00e in 1907, and the emigration was still continuing.

This event produced a profound impression on his susceptible mind, and for more than a year he remained sunk in apathy.

The drilling of petroleum wells is carried on by individuals or companies, either on lands owned by them, or on properties whose owners grant leases, usually on condition that a certain number of wells shall be sunk within a stated period, and that a portion of the oil obtained (usually from one-tenth to one-fourth) shall be appropriated as royalty to the lessor.

The " wild-cat " wells, sunk by speculators on untested territory or on lands which had not previously proved productive, played an important part in the earlier mapping out of the petroleum fields.

Before the surrender all the Peruvian naval vessels in the harbour were sunk, to prevent their falling into the possession of the enemy.

Three-fourths of the Turkish and Egyptian vessels were sunk by the assailants, or fired by their own crews.

A very remarkable feature in Limulus, first described by Owen, is the close accompaniment of the prosomatic nerve centres and nerves by arteries, so close indeed that the great ganglion mass and its out-running nerves are actually sunk in or invested by ch.

In primitive forms the respiratory lamellae of the appendages of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, or of the 1st and 2nd mesosomatic somites are sunk beneath the surface of the body, and become adapted to breathe atmospheric oxygen, forming the leaves of the so-called lung-books.

Large beds of rock-salt also occur in the neighbourhood, in which shafts have been sunk to a depth of more than 1200 ft.

This movement reached its height in 1900, when 178,170 people left the country; in 1906 the number had sunk to 169,202, of whom 47,920 were women.'

The back of the obelisk is plain, but the front and sides are subdivided into storeys by a series of bands and plates, each storey having panels sunk into it which seem to represent windows with mullions and transom.

In front of the bestpreserved obelisk is a raised altar with holes sunk in it apparently to receive the blood of the sacrifice to the ancestors.

Mine fires may sometimes be reached by bore-holes sunk for the purpose from the surface, and the burning workings below filled by flushing with culm and water.

The surrounding tissue enlarges, so that the spots appear as if sunk in depressions, and bear a considerable resemblance to hailstone wounds.

It was even supposed by some that the pond had sunk, and this was one of the primitive forest that formerly stood there.

I had just sunk my head on this when the bells rung fire, and in hot haste the engines rolled that way, led by a straggling troop of men and boys, and I among the foremost, for I had leaped the brook.

He looked up joyfully at the baby when the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that the wax with the baby's hair had not sunk in the font but had floated.

He sat, sunk deep in a folding armchair, and continually cleared his throat and pulled at the collar of his coat which, though it was unbuttoned, still seemed to pinch his neck.

To avoid the dreaded wilt disease, the top of the root ball should be sunk about 15cm below soil level.

Don't waste geometric moves just to shout out a coordinate because in the end you are not the one that wants to be saying "you've sunk my battleship" over and over again.

The phrase "You've sunk my battleship" has been handed down over generations and is still popular today.

To discourage the sinking of wells on land immediately adjoining productive territory, it has been usual to drill along the borders of the land as far as practicable, in order to first obtain the oil which might otherwise be raised by others; and on account of the small area often controlled by the operator, the number of wells drilled has frequently been far in excess of the number which might reasonably be sunk.

This is in general a cheaper and quicker method of development for inclined deposits than by a vertical shaft, and it has the added advantage that much information as to the character of the deposit is obtained as the shaft is sunk.

The houses are remarkable as being built on piles sunk in the solid rock and having two rooms, the one surrounding the other.

The chief peculiarities that distinguish Trematodes from their free-living allies, the Turbellaria, are the development of adhering organs for attachment to the tissues of the host; the replacement of the primitively ciliated epidermis by a thick cuticular layer and deeply sunk cells to ensure protection against the solvent action of the host; and (in one large order) a prolonged and peculiar life-history.

Spragge, whose second flagship was shattered by the Dutch fire, was on his way to a third, his boat was sunk by a cannon shot and he was drowned.

There are, however, extensive oak, pine and beech forests in the highlands, and many beautiful oases in the deeply sunk valleys, and along the rivers, especially beside the Ebro, which is, therefore, often called the "Nile of Aragon."

The letters are sometimes sunk and sometimes raised.

Valleys are deeply sunk in the plateau, the largest with bottom lands of sufficient width to give rise to strips of fertile farm land.

But afloat, had Makarov survived, it would have been played to the end, and Togo's fleet would have been steadily used up. One day, indeed (May 15th), two of Japan's largest battleships, the " Hatsume " and the " Yashima," came in contact with free mines and were sunk.

The casemates in the gorge, partially cut of rt off from the terreplein by a couple of deep sunk yards Arthur.

At daylight the larger ships joined in again, and before long the whole Russian fleet, with few exceptions, had been captured or sunk.