Word Meanings - SUNK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. & p. p. of Sink. Sunk fence, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUNK)

• Decayed
• Rotten
• corrupt
• unsound
• decomposed
• declined
• faded
• sunk
• unprosperous
• impoverished
• wasted away
• Low
• Abated
• depressed
• stunted
• declining
• deep
• subsided
• inaudible
• cheap
• gentle
• dejected
• degraded
• mean
• abject
• base
• unworthy
• lowly
• feeble
• moderate
• frugal
• reprieved
• subdued
• reduced
• poor

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUNK)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to SUNK)

• FADAISE
  A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• ABATVOIX
  The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.