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sunken

adjective as in depressed, hollowed; submerged

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"We then discovered it was a plane crash and saw the sunken hole the crash had created in the ground," she said.

From BBC

Children gaze with sunken eyes and swollen bellies, their cries of hunger echoing into a silence broken only by the roar of bombs.

From Salon

A fusion of body horror and couples therapy, it centers on a sunken cave with a pool of water that, when sipped, makes cells thirst to meld with the nearest mammal.

Paramedics who came to the house describe Ethan as being emaciated with a sunken chest and found he was bruised and bleeding.

From BBC

Somewhere in a sunken kitchen, copper pans still hang above the range.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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