Done
Done adjective - Facing certain defeat, disaster, or death.
Usage example: at this point retailing in the city's downtown is done
Sunk
Sunk adjective - Facing certain defeat, disaster, or death.
Usage example: all our savings went for lottery tickets, and now we're sunk
Both words in one sentence
- In Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow, one level has you aboard a recently sunk nuclear powered navy ship with the nuclear reactor about to "go critical" forcing you to hurry and shut it down by removing the fuel rods instead of inserting control rods as would be done in reality.
Source: Going Critical -
Huginn and Muninn then reveal to Harry that after what he'd done on Earth during the Chitauri invasion sunk in, he tried to cut off his own hands...
Source: These Hands Have Killed -
Plastic Man had this done to him in the Justice League comic book, courtesy of a superhuman who petrified him and shattered him to pieces in pre-sunk Atlantis (which, subsequently, sank).
Source: Literally Shattered Lives
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