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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket;
[syn: dunk, dunk shot, stuff shot]


VERB (3)

1. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate;
- Example: "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"
- Example: "dip the brush into the paint"
[syn: dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse]

2. make a dunk shot, in basketball;
- Example: "He dunked the ball"

3. dip into a liquid while eating;
- Example: "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
[syn: dunk, dip]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dunk
    n 1: a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled
         downward into the basket [syn: dunk, dunk shot, stuff
         shot]
    v 1: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or
         saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution";
         "dip the brush into the paint" [syn: dunk, dip,
         souse, plunge, douse]
    2: make a dunk shot, in basketball; "He dunked the ball"
    3: dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of
       bread in the sauce" [syn: dunk, dip]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "dunk":
   baptize, bury, deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, engulf, float,
   flood, flow on, immerge, immerse, inundate, merge, overwhelm,
   plunge in water, pour on, rain, saturate, sink, sluice, soak, sop,
   souse, submerge, submerse, swamp, whelm