dunk

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To submerge briefly in a liquid.
2. (transitive) To set down carelessly.
3. (ambitransitive) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
4. (Internet, intransitive) To put down on social media [with on].

Noun

The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.

Synonyms

dip

immerse

plunge

soak

souse

douse

dunk shot

submerge

stuff shot

duck

🦆

saturate

season

sink

slam dunk

sop

steel

submergence

temper

toughen

wet

dip into

put in water

drag into

slam-dunk

baptise

turn flukes

baptize

christen

dabble

drench

get rid of

harden

imbue

immersion

puddle

Translations

mojar

tremper

eintauchen

remojar

eintunken

indopen

imergir

tunken

sumergir

immergir

mullar

immergere

intingere

mergulhar

plonger

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dʌŋk/

Etymology

Cognate with German: tunken

Cognate with Latin: tingō

Cognate with Ancient Greek: τέγγω

In summary

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.