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DUSK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time of day immediately following sunset
Example:
they finished before the fall of night
Synonyms:
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("dusk" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dusk"):
night (a shortening of nightfall)
Holonyms ("dusk" is a part of...):
eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))
Derivation:
dusky (lighted by or as if by twilight)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become dusk
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "dusk" is one way to...):
darken (become dark or darker)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
When dusk comes we should find ourselves one stage advanced in our investigation.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sun was shining in upon them through a side-window, and I can see the three faces now—one in the dusk, one in the light, and one cut across by the shadow.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fanny with doubting feelings had risen to meet him, but sank down again on finding herself undistinguished in the dusk, and unthought of.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“Hold to her, Wat!” said a great black-bearded man-at-arms, whose steel breast-plate glimmered in the dusk.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Vladimir Dinets, who led the study, said the boas hang from the ceiling of cave entrances at dusk and dawn, when bats either enter or leave the cave.
(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)
It was growing quite dusk, however, before they were in the neighbourhood of Uppercross, and there had been total silence among them for some time, Henrietta leaning back in the corner, with a shawl over her face, giving the hope of her having cried herself to sleep; when, as they were going up their last hill, Anne found herself all at once addressed by Captain Wentworth.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
That evening, after dusk, he came down to our little camp, handed me (for some reason he had always shown his attentions to me, perhaps because I was the one who was nearest his age) a small roll of the bark of a tree, and then pointing solemnly up at the row of caves above him, he had put his finger to his lips as a sign of secrecy and had stolen back again to his people.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The best way to prevent the disease is to protect yourself from sand fly bites: • Stay indoors from dusk to dawn, when sand flies are the most active • Wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts when outside • Use insect repellent and bed nets as needed
(Leishmaniasis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Dusk as it was, I had recognised him—it was my master, Edward Fairfax Rochester, and no other.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
