Down and Sunk

Down

Down adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Usage example: feeling a bit down

Sunk and down are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sunk" instead an adjective "Down".

Nearby Word: downed

Sunk

Sunk adjective - Facing certain defeat, disaster, or death.

Down and sunk are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Down" instead the word "Sunk" as an adjective or a verb.

Both words in one sentence

  • Then there is Numenor, an island civilization far in advance of any other part of Middle-Earth, whose people fall out of divine grace, worship evil, and provoke the gods so much that their island kingdom is eventually thrown down and sunk beneath the waves.
  • Going Down with the Ship Cromwell, an officer in the US Navy Submarine fleet, chose to go down with his sub (the USS Sculpin) when it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the Pacific.
  • Worse,you don't get any benefits whatsoever once you reach Commissioner, meaning that once the clock runs down, you're sunk.
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