Meaning of "sunken" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SUNKEN

sunken  [ˈsʌŋkən]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUNKEN

Sunken is a verb and can also act as an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb sunken in English.

WHAT DOES SUNKEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sunken in the English dictionary

The first definition of sunken in the dictionary is unhealthily hollow. Other definition of sunken is situated at a lower level than the surrounding or usual one. Sunken is also situated under water; submerged.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SUNKEN

PRESENT

Present

I sunken

you sunken

he/she/it sunkens

we sunken

you sunken

they sunken

Present continuous

I am sunkening

you are sunkening

he/she/it is sunkening

we are sunkening

you are sunkening

they are sunkening

Present perfect

I have sunkened

you have sunkened

he/she/it has sunkened

we have sunkened

you have sunkened

they have sunkened

Present perfect continuous

I have been sunkening

you have been sunkening

he/she/it has been sunkening

we have been sunkening

you have been sunkening

they have been sunkening

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sunkened

you sunkened

he/she/it sunkened

we sunkened

you sunkened

they sunkened

Past continuous

I was sunkening

you were sunkening

he/she/it was sunkening

we were sunkening

you were sunkening

they were sunkening

Past perfect

I had sunkened

you had sunkened

he/she/it had sunkened

we had sunkened

you had sunkened

they had sunkened

Past perfect continuous

I had been sunkening

you had been sunkening

he/she/it had been sunkening

we had been sunkening

you had been sunkening

they had been sunkening

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will sunken

you will sunken

he/she/it will sunken

we will sunken

you will sunken

they will sunken

Future continuous

I will be sunkening

you will be sunkening

he/she/it will be sunkening

we will be sunkening

you will be sunkening

they will be sunkening

Future perfect

I will have sunkened

you will have sunkened

he/she/it will have sunkened

we will have sunkened

you will have sunkened

they will have sunkened

Future perfect continuous

I will have been sunkening

you will have been sunkening

he/she/it will have been sunkening

we will have been sunkening

you will have been sunkening

they will have been sunkening

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would sunken

you would sunken

he/she/it would sunken

we would sunken

you would sunken

they would sunken

Conditional continuous

I would be sunkening

you would be sunkening

he/she/it would be sunkening

we would be sunkening

you would be sunkening

they would be sunkening

Conditional perfect

I would have sunken

you would have sunken

he/she/it would have sunken

we would have sunken

you would have sunken

they would have sunken

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been sunkening

you would have been sunkening

he/she/it would have been sunkening

we would have been sunkening

you would have been sunkening

they would have been sunkening

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you sunken
we let´s sunken
you sunken

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to sunken

Past participle

sunkened

Present Participle

sunkening

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SUNKEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sunken» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of sunken

abate · basin · below ground · bore · buried · capsize · collapse · concave · decay · decline · decrease · defeat · degenerate · depreciate · depressed · descend · destroy · deteriorate · die · dig · diminish · dip · disappear · down · drawn · drill · drink · drive · droop · drop · dwindle · excavate · fade · fail · fall · finish · flag · flop · founder · go down · go downhill · go under · haggard · hand basin · hollow · immersed · invest · knock back · lay · lay out · lessen · lower · neck · overwhelm · plough · plummet · plunge · polish off · put down · put in · quaff · recessed · relapse · retrogress · risk · ruin · scupper · scuttle · slip · slump · stoop · submerge · submerged · submersed · subside · succumb · swill · wash-hand basin · washbasin · weaken · worsen

TRANSLATION OF SUNKEN

Find out the translation of sunken to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sunken from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sunken» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 沉没的
• Translator English - Spanish: hundido
• English: sunken
• Translator English - Hindi: धँसा
• Translator English - Arabic: الغارقة
• Translator English - Russian: затонувших
• Translator English - Portuguese: afundado
• Translator English - Bengali: মগ্ন
• Translator English - French: englouti
• Translator English - Malay: Tenggelam
• Translator English - German: versunken
• Translator English - Japanese: 沈んだ
• Translator English - Korean: 침몰한
• Translator English - Javanese: Sunken
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chìm
• Translator English - Tamil: அமிழ்ந்த
• Translator English - Marathi: बुडलेले
• Translator English - Turkish: batık
• Translator English - Italian: sommerso
• Translator English - Polish: zatopiony
• Translator English - Ukrainian: затонулих
• Translator English - Romanian: scufundat
• Translator English - Greek: βυθισμένη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: gesink
• Translator English - Swedish: insjunkna
• Translator English - Norwegian: nedsunket

4 QUOTES WITH «SUNKEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sunken.

1

Hugo Chavez

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

2

Alice Morse Earle

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

3

Frederick William Faber

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

4

Jean Genet

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUNKEN»

Discover the use of sunken in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sunken and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken History

After years of exploration across the lake's bottomlands, underwater archaeologist Joseph W. Zarzynski and archaeological diver Bob Benway present the most intriguing discoveries among more than two hundred known shipwreck sites.

Joseph W. Zarzynski, Bob Benway, 2011

Geronimo Stilton #25: The Search for Sunken Treasure

Enter the world of Geronimo Stilton, where another funny adventure is always right around the corner.

Geronimo Stilton, 2011

Sunken Realms: A Complete Catalog of Underwater Ruins

Karen Mutton begins by discussing some of the causes for sunken ruins: super-floods; volcanoes; earthquakes, plate tectonics and other theories.

Karen Mutton, 2009

The Norumbegan Quartet #1: The Game of Sunken Places

When Brian and Gregory receive an invitation to stay at a distant relative's strange manse . . . well, they should know better than to go, but since this is a middle-grade adventure novel, they go anyway. Why not?

M.T. Anderson, 2010

Sunken Ships World War II: US Naval Chronology, Including ...

Each of the more than 350 pages of this book is packed with minute informa-tion on each sunken vessel.

Karl E. Heden, 2006

The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for ...

To offset the associated social adjustment costs, successful reforms should provide for social safety nets and alternative economic opportunities for affected communities."--BOOK JACKET.

‎2009

Sunken Treasure

A rotting hull of a ship...lost gold...coins...gems...Sunken Treasure! Today treasure hunting is a big business. Searchers use metal detectors and sonar to locate treasure on the ocean floor.

Gail Gibbons, 1990

The Search for the Sunken Treasure: Australia

Nine-year-old Jack, a secret agent with the Global Protection Force, must find a diver and treasure that went missing from the wreck of the HMS Pandora near the Great Barrier Reef, a mission complicated by the presence of pirates.

Elizabeth Singer Hunt, 2007

The Sunken Living Room

"November, 1978.

David Caudle, 2008

Ghost fleet: the sunken ships of Bikini Atoll

deserted homes and crumbling concrete bunkers that remain on the atoll itself, the ghost fleet of Operation Crossroads is an archaeological legacy from the beginning of the atomic age.

James P. Delgado, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUNKEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sunken is used in the context of the following news items.

Cat found alive aboard sunken boat pulled from Lake Havasu

LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A trapped, hungry, wet and scared cat is now safe after it was found tucked away in a boat that had sank to the bottom of Lake ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»

Clues surface as divers probe sunken ship

Caribou diver Robert MacKay looks at some pieces of material brought up from the sunken ship sitting in the middle of the Pictou Harbour. MacKay and a group ... «The News, Jul 15»

South Korea Picks Preferred Bidder to Lift Sunken Ferry

South Korea on Wednesday selected a Chinese-led consortium as a preferred bidder to salvage a sunken ferry that killed more than 300 people in April last ... «ABC News, Jul 15»

Coast Guard monitoring sunken fishing vessel near Ilwaco

ILWACO, Wash. (AP) - The Coast Guard is monitoring a sunken fishing vessel in Ilwaco Channel for possible pollution and as a potential hazard to navigation. «KOMO News, May 15»

South Korea Plans to Raise Sunken Sewol Ferry

SEOUL—South Korea said Wednesday it would attempt to raise the Sewol ferry whose sinking last year killed more than 300 people, after thousands hit Seoul's ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»

Parents of Children Lost on Sunken Ferry Still Seek Truth

Jang Sun Bok holds a photo of her son, Jun Woo, who died on the Sewol ferry last year for a photograph at her home in Ansan, South Korea, on Friday, March 6, ... «Bloomberg, Apr 15»

Thousand View Sunken Crucifix Under Little Traverse Bay Ice

PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) – About 1,000 people have turned out to get a peek at a sunken stone crucifix that lies at the bottom of Lake Michigan's Little Traverse ... «CBS Local, Mar 15»

URI, tribe work to locate offshore lands

But federal regulators and Native Americans worry that wind turbines could inadvertently be parked on top of the sunken lands where Native Americans lived ... «Boston Globe, Feb 15»

Sunken city of Igarata begins to emerge as Brazil's drought sees …

A sunken town in Brazil has re-emerged, with old structures, ruins and trees surfacing as water levels drop further. The old city of Igarata has been submerged ... «International Business Times UK, Feb 15»

Team of shipwreck explorers discover 2 sunken canal boats from …

OSWEGO, N.Y. -- A team of shipwreck enthusiasts who have made several discoveries of sunken schooners, steamers and even an airplane in Lake Ontario ... «Syracuse.com, Jan 15»