sunken
/ˈsʌŋkən/ adjective B2- Caused, by natural or unnatural means, to be depressed (lower than the surrounding area) or submerged · The sunken ship lay at a depth of 100 feet
- Seeming to have fallen deeper back into the face due to tiredness, illness, or old age. · She looked old and thin with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.
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Dantès looked in fear and wonder at the livid countenance of Faria, whose eyes, already dull and sunken, were surrounded by purple circles, while his lips were white as those of a corpse, and his very hair seemed to stand on end.
He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head.
There could be no doubt about the beetling forehead, the sunken animal eyes.
The white hair was thrown back from her yellow forehead, and her eyes, already sunken by the furrows of age, now almost disappeared beneath the eyelids swollen with grief.
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