Drown
Sunk
Sunk adjective - Facing certain defeat, disaster, or death.
Both words in one sentence
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So after Leach and Johnson tried to flee with one of the hunting boats and it sunk in a storm, Wolf Larsen finds them drifting in the water and simply lets them drown.
Source: Literature / The Sea Wolf - Whatever ships weren't sunk by the pikes were burnt by fire arrows and burning barges, and those who didn't drown in the river were hacked to pieces by hidden reserve forces on the riverbed.
Source: Curb Stomp Battle / Real Life -
Zombies do the same, as Windle Poons just walks ashore after attempting to drown himself, and Reg Shoe contemplates walking all the way back to Ankh-Morpork along the bottom of the sea if their ship is sunk.
Source: Walk, Don't Swim
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