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sunk
[suhngk]
adjective
Informal.beyond help; done for; washed up.
If they catch you cheating, you're really sunk.
Nautical.(of a forecastle or poop) raised less than a full deck above the weather deck of a ship.
sunk
/ ʌŋ /
verb
a past participle of sink
adjective
informalwith all hopes dashed; ruined
if the police come while we're opening the safe, we'll be sunk
Other Word Forms
- half-sunk adjective
- unsunk adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of sunk1
Example Sentences
If he doesn't, then not only are there sunk costs, but there's the problem of importing fossil fuels, and he's concerned about climate.
Terminating these projects now, therefore, means squandering billions of dollars in sunk costs already borne by taxpayers.
Biden was punished at the polls for this choice, which was one of many errors in that sunk his electoral fortunes and those of Kamala Harris and the Democrats.
Musk's approval ratings are worse than Trump's and his companies' reputations have sunk in the public mind just as much.
In the years since they were dug, their surface has sunk into the dry, stony earth.
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