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DIPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)
Synonyms:
dipped; lordotic; swayback; swaybacked
Classified under:
Similar:
unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dip
Context examples:
Once, in a gust, the rail dipped under the sea, and the decks on that side were for the moment awash with water that made a couple of the hunters hastily lift their feet.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As it sank he became less and less frenzied; and just as it dipped he slid from the hands that held him, an inert mass, on the floor.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
When the fresh irons proved too hot, they hooked them on iron rods and dipped them into cold water.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He dipped it into the test-tube and it flushed at once into a dull, dirty crimson.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Diana (I knew her by the long curls which I saw drooping between me and the fire as she bent over me) broke some bread, dipped it in milk, and put it to my lips.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Near Shotwood he came upon five seamen, on their way from Poole to Southampton—rude red-faced men, who shouted at him in a jargon which he could scarce understand, and held out to him a great pot from which they had been drinking—nor would they let him pass until he had dipped pannikin in and taken a mouthful, which set him coughing and choking, with the tears running down his cheeks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How well I recollect our sitting there, talking in whispers; or their talking, and my respectfully listening, I ought rather to say; the moonlight falling a little way into the room, through the window, painting a pale window on the floor, and the greater part of us in shadow, except when Steerforth dipped a match into a phosphorus-box, when he wanted to look for anything on the board, and shed a blue glare over us that was gone directly!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart-breaking to hear.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At the same moment the left hand held up the body of the shirt so that it would not enter the starch, and at the moment the right hand dipped into the starch—starch so hot that, in order to wring it out, their hands had to thrust, and thrust continually, into a bucket of cold water.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
