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DUNK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket

Synonyms:

dunk; dunk shot; stuff shot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dunk" is a kind of...):

basketball shot (throwing the basketball toward the hoop)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dunk"):

slam dunk (a forceful dunk)

Derivation:

dunk (make a dunk shot, in basketball)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dip into a liquid while eating

Example:

She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce

Synonyms:

dip; dunk

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "dunk" is one way to...):

immerse; plunge (thrust or throw into)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

Example:

dip the brush into the paint

Synonyms:

dip; douse; dunk; plunge; souse

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dunk" is one way to...):

immerse; plunge (thrust or throw into)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dunk"):

sop (dip into liquid)

dip; douse; duck (dip into a liquid)

dabble (dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

Dunkard (an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a dunk shot, in basketball

Example:

He dunked the ball

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dunk" is one way to...):

shoot (throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective)

Domain category:

basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dunk"):

slam-dunk (make a slam dunk; shoot a basketball in a slam dunk)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dunk (a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket)

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