dunk

verb

/dʌŋk/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they dunk	/dʌŋk/ /dʌŋk/
he / she / it dunks	/dʌŋks/ /dʌŋks/
past simple dunked	/dʌŋkt/ /dʌŋkt/
past participle dunked	/dʌŋkt/ /dʌŋkt/
-ing form dunking	/ˈdʌŋkɪŋ/ /ˈdʌŋkɪŋ/

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[transitive] dunk something (in/into something) to put food quickly into liquid before eating it（吃前将食物放入液体中）浸一浸，泡一泡
- She sat reading a magazine, dunking cookies in her coffee.她坐着一边看杂志一边将曲奇饼在咖啡里蘸一下再吃。
[transitive] dunk somebody/something (especially North American English) to push somebody underwater for a short time, as a joke; to put something into water（开玩笑地将某人按入水中）浸一下；浸，泡（某物）
- The camera survived being dunked in the river.这照相机在河里泡了一下还没坏。
[intransitive, transitive] dunk (something) (in basketball篮球) to jump very high and put the ball through the basket with great force from above把（球）扣入篮内；扣篮；灌篮 see also slam-dunkTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2

Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Pennsylvanian German dunke ‘dip’, from German tunken ‘dip or plunge’.

BNC: 33537 COCA: 14387

dunk

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