Killed and Sunk

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

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

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Killed and sunk are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Killed" instead an adjective "Sunk".

In Which We Serve — A British destroyer is bombed and sunk and many of its men killed by German strafing, leading to various flashbacks depicting How We Got Here.

Source: Works Set in World War II
It sunk further when Fumito had the most of the cast, including Tokizane, brutally killed and nobody misses him.

Source: Abandon Shipping
Then, during one pursuit, he was killed when the flagship struck - and was sunk by - a mine the IJN had laid specifically to hole the Russian navy up.

Source: Attack! Attack! Attack!

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