sunk

• Many of the boats were sunk, and the people in the others, finding escape impossible, hauled down their flags, and made signs that they surrendered. —  The Three Commanders
• Sir Edmund told him that his ship would probably be sunk, and undertook to have his boats in readiness to pick up him and his crew should such an event occur. —  The Three Commanders
• But I had no need for alarm; my appetite was quite sunk, and I became sick before I had eaten half of what I had bought. —  Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• There were scattered little plots of better soil where wells were sunk, and the laborious and careful cultivation was and is Dutch in its neatness. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
• All stores, cargo, and guns were to be transferred to the new capture, and our present craft sunk--as we had done with the galley It had become a saying with us that `dead men tell no tales'; so it was agreed to kill every soul we captured, taking care that none escaped us. —  Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess

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