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dunk

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they dunk
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he / she / it dunks
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past simple dunked
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past participle dunked
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-ing form dunking
🔊/ˈdʌŋkɪŋ/
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  1. [transitive] dunk something (in/into something) to put food quickly into liquid before eating it（吃前将食物放入液体中）浸一浸，泡一泡
    • She sat reading a magazine, dunking cookies in her coffee.她坐着一边看杂志一边将曲奇饼在咖啡里蘸一下再吃。🔊🔊
  2. [transitive] dunk somebody/something (especially North American English) to push somebody underwater for a short time, as a joke; to put something into water（开玩笑地将某人按入水中）浸一下；浸，泡（某物）
    • The camera survived being dunked in the river.这照相机在河里泡了一下还没坏。🔊🔊
  3. [intransitive, transitive] dunk (something) (in basketball篮球) to jump very high and put the ball through the basket with great force from above 把（球）扣入篮内；扣篮；灌篮see also slam-dunkTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
    4. Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Pennsylvanian German dunke ‘dip’, from German tunken ‘dip or plunge’.