[adjective] - having (been) sunk, or (been) moved into a position below the surrounding levelThousands of people watched as the sunken sixteenth-century ship was raised from the bottom of the harbour.They're diving for sunken treasure.We're putting a sunken bath in our bathroom.If someone's eyes or cheeks are sunken, they look as if they have fallen inwards into their face, esp. because they are tired, or have been ill, or are old.Pictures of people in the prison camps showed them with protruding ribs and sunken eyes.She looked old and thin with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.
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Meaning of SUNKEN in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012