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English
Pronunciation
Verb
sunk
- past participle of sink
- (dialectal) past of sink
- Jonathan Swift
- He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Sense and Sensibility , volume I, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 196:Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; […]
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Swedish
Noun
sunk n
- (colloquial) shabbiness, sleaziness
Den där baren vi var på igår asså. Vilket jävla sunk.- That bar we went to yesterday... such goddamn sleaze.
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