Sinkable

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being sunk

    "The Titanic was advertised as being unsinkable; regrettably it turned out to be quite sinkable."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being sunk wordnet

Example

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"The Titanic was advertised as being unsinkable; regrettably it turned out to be quite sinkable."

Etymology

From sink + -able.

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