Antonyms for duck
dʌkduck

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. duck

   Dip is Saxon, while immerse is Latin for the same initial act; dip is accordingly the more popular and commonplace, immerse the more elegant and dignified expression in many cases. To speak of baptism by immersion as dipping now seems rude; tho entirely proper and usual in early English. Baptists now universally use the word immerse. To dip and to immerse alike signify to bury or submerge some object in a liquid; but dip implies that the object dipped is at once removed from the liquid, while immerse is wholly silent as to the removal. Immerse also suggests more absolute completeness of the action; one may dip his sleeve or dip a sponge in a liquid, if he but touches the edge; if he immerses it, he completely sinks it under, and covers it with the liquid. Submerge implies that the object can not readily be removed, if at all; as, a submerged wreck. To plunge is to immerse suddenly and violently, for which douse and duck are colloquial terms. Dip is used, also, unlike the other words, to denote the putting of a hollow vessel into a liquid in order to remove a portion of it; in this sense we say dip up, dip out. Compare synonyms for BURY.

   Synonyms:
   bury, dip, douse, immerge, immerse, plunge, sink, submerge

   Preposition:
   The object is immersed in water.

Matched Categories

1. • Anseriform Bird
   • Avoid
   • Cricket
   • Dive
   • Move
   • Poultry
   • Score

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ducknoun

   small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

   Synonyms:
   duck's egg

2. duck, duck's eggnoun

   (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

   Synonyms:
   duck's egg

3. ducknoun

   flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

   Synonyms:
   duck's egg

4. duckverb

   a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents

   Synonyms:
   duck's egg

5. duckverb

   to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away

   "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"

   Synonyms:
   parry, circumvent, evade, hedge, douse, elude, dip, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, dodge

6. duckverb

   submerge or plunge suddenly

   Synonyms:
   parry, circumvent, evade, hedge, douse, elude, dip, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, dodge

7. dip, douse, duckverb

   dip into a liquid

   "He dipped into the pool"

   Synonyms:
   parry, fudge, dim, hedge, dodge, dowse, dunk, skirt, sink, put out, souse, sop, soak, circumvent, dip, put off, elude, drench, douse, evade, plunge, sidestep

8. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb

   avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

   "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

   Synonyms:
   put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, dodge, remit, fake, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, elude, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ducknoun

   Synonyms:
   drake (male), teal

   Associated words:
   anatine, anserine, anatiferous, quack

2. ducknoun

   Synonyms:
   anatidæ, anseres

   Associated words:
   anatine, anserine, anatiferous, quack

3. duckverb

   Synonyms:
   souse, dip, plunge, immerse, dive, dodge, cringe

How to use duck in a sentence?

1. Jesse Christenson:

   I initially thought it was a (tire) blow out. The duck boat then hit another car with a roof rack then went head on into the oncoming tour bus, the scene was pretty gruesome ... There were people in shock.

2. Jake Deutsch:

   Ifyoure in an environment where youre around multiple people not wearing masks, youre basically a sitting duck.

3. Chief Executive Lance Fritz:

   It's a really hard call, it's very difficult to move anything in a lame duck session... but we'd like to see that and we'd really encourage that.

4. John Calia:

   You know what I think it was? I think it was a duck, she jumped right over, right over the side.

5. Willie Robertson:

   I’ve been talking a lot with Bobby Jindal, who is our governor. Bobby is a good friend of ours. He and his wife are good friends of Korie and [mine]. He has been on our television show. Anybody that comes down and has been on an episode of ‘Duck Dynasty,’ obviously is the frontrunner in my book.

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