sunken (root: sink)

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: sunk=en

CIDE DICTIONARY

sunken, a. 

 Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sunken, adj.
1 that has been sunk.
2 beneath the surface; submerged.
3 (of the eyes, cheeks, etc.) hollow, depressed.

Idiom

sunken garden a garden placed below the general level of its surroundings.

Etymology

past part. of SINK

THESAURUS

sunken

boat-shaped, boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, buried, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, debased, depressed, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, downcast, downthrown, drawn, drowned, engulfed, fallen, flooded, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, haggard, hollow, hollowed, immersed, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, inundated, low, lowered, navicular, naviform, prostrate, reduced, retiring, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, settled, spoonlike, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed, sunk, underground, undersea, underwater