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Synonyms for sunken
Synonyms for sunken: recessed and concave. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for sunken
Interchangeable with sunken in this sense
Audited under sunken's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sunken carries in that sense.
- recessedadjective, in the sense "having a sunken area"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name sunken as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- concaveconcave is an adjective in the sense "curving inward, like the inside of a bowl"
The first group is filed under sunken's own sense. The second reaches sunken from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
having a sunken area
Hunger gave their faces a sunken look.
The true synonym
recessed
Same sentence, swapped: Hunger gave their faces a recessed look.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- submerged
- prostrate
- inundated
Where sunken turns up in the game
sunken is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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