dunk
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dunk
n 1: a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled
downward into the basket [syn: {dunk}, {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: {dunk}, {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: {dunk}, {dip}]
from
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
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