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Synonyms for dunk
dʌŋkdunk
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Princeton's WordNet
dunk, dunk shot, stuff shotverb
a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
Synonyms:
stuff shot, dunk shotdunk, dip, souse, plunge, douseverb
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"
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engulf, hit it up, dim, engross, dump, dowse, dive, duck, launch, sink, steep, immerse, souse, sop, soak, plunk, dip, put out, plunge, soak up, drench, douse, inebriate, absorbdunkverb
make a dunk shot, in basketball
"He dunked the ball"
dunk, dipverb
dip into a liquid while eating
"She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
Matched Categories
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3232 | launch | |
#7123 | duck | |
#7140 | dive | |
#7229 | sink | |
#8056 | dump | |
#9094 | dip | |
#9389 | dim | |
#12815 | steep | |
#15816 | absorb | |
#19340 | soak | |
#19555 | plunge | |
#23797 | dunk | |
#25667 | sop | |
#40642 | immerse | |
#43203 | cinch | |
#67252 | drench | |
#73698 | engulf | |
#95819 | plunk | |
#110802 | douse | |
#145615 | dowse | |
#233923 | engross |
How to use dunk in a sentence?
We can't say for sure this will make it a slam dunk for EPA to do all the things they've got to do to get to the target, but it's got to make it easier.
It was turning out to be such a great night. A dunk, won some money for a fan, had over 600 shoes brought in, it definitely didnt turn out that way at the end.
That's as close to a smoking gun or a slam dunk as you'll ever come, but you're never going use that terminology per se.
Sometimes it's a slam dunk where everyone has the same thing and you can party.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962:
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
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