Synonyms for sunken
ˈsʌŋ kənsunken

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1. deep-set, sunken, recessedadjective

   having a sunken area

   "hunger gave their faces a sunken look"

   Synonyms:
   deep-set, recessed

   Antonyms:
   solid

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1. List of paraphrases for "sunken":

   drowned, sinking, submerged, wreck, depressed

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1. Paul Allen:

   We’ve done a number of these explorations to try to find sunken warships, we try to do these both as really exciting examples of underwater archeology and as tributes to the brave men that went down in these ships.

2. New York:

   His face is sunken and his skin doesn’t look good. He’s gone from one extreme to the other, that message he’s spouting should not be marketed.

3. Daniel Kaluuya:

   I was muted. Can you believe that? I told the best joke of my life and I was muted. I felt like I was in a sunken place.

4. Jordan Peele:

   HARRISON FORD SERVED AS UNDERCOVER ADVISER FOR ‘ SOLO : ‘ A STAR WARS STORY ’ Jordan Peele spoke about the underlying themes of the movie which included slavery. I realized what this movie was about. I realized that slavery was not something of the past. The' sunken place' to me, shouted to me, that in today’s time, in modern time, we have black men and women abducted and put in dark holes. We have our freedoms taken away … I realized at that point that there were people being locked up and taken out of the world and taken from their families for holding less weed than I was smoking while I was writing this movie.

5. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

   I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.