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Define the word dunk

"dunk" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

dunk
     n : a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled
         downward into the basket [syn: 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: 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: dip]

"dunk" moby-thes "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