sunk

See also: süňk

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sʌŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Verb

sunk

1. past participle of sink
2. (dialectal) past of sink
   • Jonathan Swift

     He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 196:

     Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; […]

See also

• sank

Swedish

Noun

sunk n

1. (colloquial) shabbiness, sleaziness

   Den där baren vi var på igår asså. Vilket jävla sunk.

   That bar we went to yesterday... such goddamn sleaze.

Declension

Declension of sunk

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sunk	sunks
	definite	sunket	sunkets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• sunkig (“shabby, sleazy”)