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sunkadjective facing certain defeat, disaster, or deathall our savings went for lottery tickets, and now we're sunk dead, done, done for, doomed, finished, kaput(also kaputt), ruined endangered, imperiled(or imperilled) to become worse or of less valuehis fortunes have steadily sunk since the breakup of his business atrophied, crumbled, decayed, declined, degenerated, descended, deteriorated, devolved, ebbed, regressed, retrograded, rotted, worsened abated, de-escalated, diminished, downsized, dwindled, receded, wanedbroken down, corrupted, decomposed, degraded, dilapidated, disintegrated, moldered, putrefiedsoured, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt)lessened, lowered, reduceddebilitated, undermineddrooped, failed, fallen, flagged, lagged, languished, run down, sagged, slipped, wasted (away), weakened, wilted gone to pot, gone to seed(or run to seed) ameliorated, improved, meliorated bettered, upgradedenhanced, enriched, fortified, heightened, intensified, strengthenedadvanced, developed, marched, proceeded, progressed to go to a lower level especially abruptlyI had just bought a bundle of shares of the stock when its price sank like a rock crashed, cratered, declined, descended, dipped, dived(also dove), dropped, fallen, lowered, nose-dived, plummeted, plunged, skidded, tumbled abated, decreased, de-escalated, died (down), diminished, drooped, dwindled, ebbed, lessened, let up, moderated, subsided, tapered off, wanedreceded, retreated arisen, ascended, lifted, mounted, risen, soared, spiked, upped accumulated, ballooned, built, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), enlarged, escalated, expanded, grown, increased, intensified, mushroomed, picked up, snowballed, swelled(or swollen), waxed to refrain from openly showing or utteringsinks his pride and makes the first step towards a reconciliation choked (back), held back, pocketed, repressed, smothered, stifled, strangled, submerged, suppressed, swallowed controlled, governed, managedbridled, checked, curbed, quashed, quelledbottled up, containedmuffled, squelched expressed, loosed, released, taken out, unleashed, vented to cease to be visiblethat evening we sat on the beach, dreamily watching the sun sink beneath the horizon dematerialized, disappeared, dissolved, evanesced, evaporated, faded, fled, flown, melted, vanished blanked (out), cleared, died (away or down or out), dispersed, dissipated, dissolved, dried upblurred, dimmed dropped out of sight appeared, materialized arrived, broken out, come out, emerged, issued, loomed, shown up(or showed up) to diminish the price or value ofthe slightest nick will sink the price of a piece of Tiffany glass attenuated, broken, cheapened, depreciated, depressed, devaluated, devalued, downgraded, lowered, marked down, reduced, written down, written off debased, demonetizedunderestimated, underpriced, underrated, undervaluedabridged, compressed, contracted, de-escalated, deflated, downsized, dwindled, lessened, moderated, shrunk(or shrunken) appreciated, enhanced, marked up, upgraded bloated, blown up, inflatedoverestimated, overpriced, overrated, overvaluedadded, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, ballooned, boosted, compounded, dilated, enlarged, escalated, expanded, extended, heightened, increased, maximized, multiplied, raised, swelled(or swollen), upped to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthe revelation that he has been embezzling for years definitely sinks him in my opinion abased, chastened, cheapened, debased, degraded, demeaned, discredited, disgraced, dishonored, fouled, humbled, humiliated, lowered, shamed, smirched, taken down abashed, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, discountenanced, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, mortified, nonplussed(also nonplused), rattledbelittled, castigated, cried down, criticized, decried, depreciated, detracted, diminished, discounted, disparaged, minimized, put down, ridiculed, written offbad-mouthed, defamed, defiled, libeled(or libelled), maligned, slanderedaffronted, insultedcensured, condemned, damned, denounced, execrated, reprehended, reprobated aggrandized, canonized, deified, elevated, exalted acclaimed, applauded, boasted, celebrated, cheered, cited, commended, complimented, congratulated, decorated, eulogized, extolled, feted(or fêted), hailed, honored, lauded, praised, saluted, toutedacknowledged, recognizedhighlighted, played up, spotlighted(or spotlit)dignified, ennobled, enshrined, enskied, enthroned, glorified, magnifiedadvanced, boosted, lifted, promoted, raised, upgraded, upliftedidealized, romanticized to lead or extend downwardthe road sinks abruptly after that curve declined, descended, dipped, dropped, fallen, plunged angled, canted, cocked, heeled, inclined, leaned, listed, reclined, slanted, sloped, tilted, tipped arisen, ascended, climbed, mounted, risen, uprisen, upswept, upturned evened, flattened, leveled(or levelled), planed, smoothed, straightened to lose bodily strength or vigorthe old woman only sunk further after she was moved to the nursing home decayed, drooped, emaciated, faded, failed, flagged, gone, lagged, languished, sagged, wasted (away), weakened, wilted, withered broken down, worn outyieldeddegenerated, deteriorated, rotted, run down convalesced, rallied, rebounded, recovered, recuperatedgained in 1583 |