撃げき沈ちん

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撃沈する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	撃げき沈ちんする	撃げき沈ちんしない
Polite	撃げき沈ちんします	撃げき沈ちんしません
Past polite	撃げき沈ちんしました	撃げき沈ちんしませんでした
Past	撃げき沈ちんした	撃げき沈ちんしなかった
Te-form	撃げき沈ちんして	撃げき沈ちんしないで
Desire	撃げき沈ちんしたい	撃げき沈ちんしたくない
Potential	撃げき沈ちんできる	撃げき沈ちんできない
Passive	撃げき沈ちんされる	撃げき沈ちんされない
Causative	撃げき沈ちんさせる	撃げき沈ちんさせない
Causative passive	撃げき沈ちんさせられる	撃げき沈ちんさせられない
Volitional	撃げき沈ちんしよう
Polite volitional	撃げき沈ちんしましょう
Imperative	撃げき沈ちんしろ	撃げき沈ちんするな
Conditional	撃げき沈ちんすれば	撃げき沈ちんしなければ
Tara conditional	撃げき沈ちんしたら	撃げき沈ちんしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

sink (a ship); send to the bottom

Primarily used for attacking and sinking a ship. Can be used metaphorically for overwhelming defeat, but the core meaning is literal naval destruction.

敵てき艦かんを撃げき沈ちんした。
They sank the enemy ship.
その海かい戦せんで戦せん艦かんが撃げき沈ちんされた。
The battleship was sunk in that naval battle.

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Usage patterns

〈物もの〉を撃げき沈ちんするto sink (a ship) by attack
潜せん水すい艦かんが敵てきの輸ゆ送そう船せんを撃げき沈ちんした。
The submarine sank the enemy's transport ship.
〈事こと〉で撃げき沈ちんするto be totally crushed or fail badly (at something), colloquially
面めん接せつで撃げき沈ちんした。
I completely bombed the interview.
〈人ひと〉に告こく白はくして撃げき沈ちんするto confess one's feelings to someone and get shot down
好すきな人ひとに告こく白はくして撃げき沈ちんした。
I confessed to the person I liked and got shot down.

Kanji

撃beat, attack, defeat
沈sink, be submerged, subside

Related words

沈ちん没ぼつN1
沈没 describes a ship intransitively sinking or going down, while 撃沈 is transitive and means to deliberately attack and sink a ship.
沈しずめるN1
沈める is a general transitive verb for making something sink (e.g. dropping an object in water), while 撃沈 specifically implies sinking a vessel through military attack.
撃げき破は
撃破 means to defeat or destroy an enemy (not necessarily by sinking), whereas 撃沈 specifically refers to sinking a ship, though both can be used metaphorically for a crushing defeat.
玉ぎょく砕さい
撃沈 is casual slang for being utterly shot down (esp. in romance), overlapping with the colloquial sense of 玉砕 but without any nuance of honor.
撃げき墜つい
撃沈 refers to sinking a ship by attack, following the same 撃＋result pattern as 撃墜 but applied to vessels instead of aircraft.

Don't confuse with

撃げき退たい
撃退 means to repel or drive off an attacker, while 撃沈 means to sink a ship through attack; both share the kanji 撃 but describe opposite outcomes.

Etymology

Compound of 撃 (attack) and 沈 (sink). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the meaning is transparent from the kanji.