Lift
Lift verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.
Sunk
Sunk adjective - Facing certain defeat, disaster, or death.
Both words in one sentence
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Pintel and Ragetti tell Will the story of how, only after they sunk his father to the bottom of the ocean, did they learn they needed his blood to lift the curse.
Source: Gallows Humor
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