name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dunk
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/dʌŋk/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ʌŋk
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CMU ARPABET: D AH1 NG K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A locality in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, which includes the Family Islands; one is Dunk Island, named after George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.
- She gave the biscuit a dunk in her cup of milk.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To submerge briefly in a liquid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- I like to dunk my donut in my apple cider.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To set down carelessly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Parents shouldn't just dunk their kids in front of the TV.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- The center spun quickly and dunked the ball with authority.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To put down on social media [with on].
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dunk shot, stuff shot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: basketball shot
Narrower terms: slam dunk
verb
Meaning 9
dip into a liquid while eating
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dip
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eat
verb
Meaning 10
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- dip the garment into the cleaning solution
- dip the brush into the paint
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dip, souse, plunge, douse
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: immerse, plunge
Narrower terms: sop, dip, douse, duck, dabble
verb
Meaning 11
make a dunk shot, in basketball
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He dunked the ball
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shoot
Narrower terms: slam-dunk
History
Etymology
From Pennsylvania German dunke, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”). Cognate with German tunken (“to dunk”), Latin tingō (“to wet, moisten”), Ancient Greek τέγγω (téngō, “to wet, moisten”). Related to taint, tincture, tint.
Across languages
Translations
76 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: رَمْيَة سَاحِقَة — basketball dunking
- Bulgarian: забивка (zabivka) — basketball dunking
- Catalan: esmaixada — basketball dunking
- Chinese Mandarin: 扣籃 /扣篮 (kòulán) — basketball dunking
- Chinese Mandarin: 灌籃 /灌篮 (guànlán) — basketball dunking
- Czech: smeč — basketball dunking
- Finnish: donkkaus — basketball dunking
- Finnish: donkki — basketball dunking
- Greek: κάρφωμα (kárfoma) — basketball dunking
- Italian: schiacciata — basketball dunking
- Korean: 덩크 (deongkeu) — basketball dunking
- Korean: 덩크 슛 (deongkeu syut) — basketball dunking
- Korean: 꽂아넣기 (kkojaneoki) — basketball dunking
- Portuguese: enterrada — basketball dunking
- Russian: данк (dank) — basketball dunking
- Spanish: mate — basketball dunking
- Spanish: donqueo — basketball dunking
- Spanish: volcada — basketball dunking
- Spanish: clavada — basketball dunking
- Spanish: machaque — basketball dunking
- Spanish: chapuz — basketball dunking
- Spanish: chapuzón — basketball dunking
- Spanish: capuz — basketball dunking
- Turkish: smaç — basketball dunking
- Albanian: zhyt — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Bulgarian: потапям (potapjam) — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Faroese: dyppa — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Faroese: dýva — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Finnish: kastaa — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- German: tunken — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- German: eintunken — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Greek: βουτώ (voutó) — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Hungarian: márt — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Hungarian: mártogat — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Hungarian: tunkol — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Icelandic: dýfa — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Malay: celup — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Māori: kōpiro — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Polish: zanurzać — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Polish: zanurzyć — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Portuguese: molhar — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Russian: мака́ть (makátʹ) — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Russian: мокну́ть (moknútʹ) — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Russian: окуна́ть (okunátʹ) — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Russian: окуну́ть (okunútʹ) — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Russian: зама́чивать (zamáčivatʹ) — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Russian: замочи́ть (zamočítʹ) — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Scots: douk — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Spanish: chapuzar — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Spanish: capuzar — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Spanish: zapuzar — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Swedish: doppa — to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip
- Albanian: zhyt — basketball
- Bulgarian: забивам (zabivam) — basketball
- Catalan: esmaixar — basketball
- Cebuano: hansak — basketball
- Chinese Cantonese: 入樽 (jap6 zeon1) — basketball
- Chinese Mandarin: 扣籃 /扣篮 (kòulán) — basketball
- Chinese Mandarin: 灌籃 /灌篮 (guànlán) — basketball
- Czech: smeč — basketball
- Finnish: donkata — basketball
- Greek: καρφώνω (karfóno) — basketball
- Hawaiian: pākī — basketball
- Hungarian: zsákol — basketball
- Italian: schiacciata — basketball
- Polish: wsad — basketball
- Portuguese: enterrar — basketball
- Sicilian: scacciata — basketball
- Spanish: machacar — basketball
- Spanish: hacer un mate — basketball
- Spanish: donquear — basketball
- Spanish: donquiar — basketball
- Swedish: dunka — basketball
- Turkish: smaç basmak — basketball
- Polish: hejtować — social media
- Polish: zhejtować — social media