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しずむ
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, む, intransitive)
1. to sink; to go under; to submerge
If things continue like this, the ship might sink.
2. to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to descend
The sun has almost set already, you know.
3. to feel depressed; to become subdued; to become somber
I've just been feeling down all day today.
Alt. forms
沈しずむ
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しずむ
1%
Pitch accent
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ずむ
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Conjugations...Used in: 176
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
to be depressed
to abandon oneself to grief
to be knocked out; to be overwhelmed; to be flabbergasted; to be thrown for a loop
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Examples (52 in total)
I am feeling down.
The moon has set.
The sun has set.
I was feeling depressed.
I've just been feeling down all day today.
The sun sets in the west.
The sun is about to set.
The ship was ready to sink any time.
Tom's boat sank.
The sun has almost set already, you know.
My body sank about halfway.
It is clear that the ship sank.
It got cold after sunset.
The sun sets earlier in the winter.
Wood floats, but iron sinks.
The sun had long since set.
But now the sun has set and it is dim.
The winter sun sets early.
A ship sank near here yesterday.
The sun went down, so they quit working.
The sun is going down behind the hill.
We felt the ground sinking.
You can see the sun setting from the window.
The ship went down slowly.
The sun had set, but the sky was still bright.
The ship sank to the bottom of the sea.
Rainy days somehow get me down.
The two ships went down at once.
My body feels heavy, as if it has sunk into a swamp.
The boat sank during the storm.
After a while, the sun set and it became dark.
You sink until your head goes under, then shoot back up to the surface in one go!
It seems to gently heal my heart, which had been prone to sinking.
The sun sets at around five here.
The sun is setting below the horizon.
The sun is sinking below the horizon.
By the time I left the shrine, the sun had completely set.
The sun and the moon rise in the east and set in the west.
Places that were land until now are sinking into the sea.
Small insects decompose the fish that have sunk to the bottom.
The crew had to abandon the sinking ship.
The boat began to take in water and soon sank.
The gloomy atmosphere that suddenly hung in the air was somehow scary.
By the time we reached home, the sun had completely set.
This country is now sunk in the depths of deep sorrow.
The sun had already set when he got home.
By the time the sun sets, we will arrive at the destination.
The captain was the last person to leave the sinking ship.
The sun having set we stayed there for the night.
The sky became as dark as if the sun had sunk.
Just when I thought it would sink again, this time it properly floated on the surface and stopped.
They came to the conclusion that the ship must have sunk.