💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dunking"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| plungeverb | (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself. |
| douseverb | (transitive) To put out; to extinguish. |
| dipnoun | A lower section of a road or geological feature. |
| sousenoun | (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. |
| dunk shotnoun | (basketball) A dunk, a shot where the ball is propelled directly downward through the hoop. |
| slamnoun | (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. |
| soakingverb | Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking. |
| demersionnoun | The state of being overwhelmed in, or as if in, water. |
| dunkernoun | Someone who dunks. |
| dippingnoun | An act or process of immersing. |
| dousingnoun | The act by which something is doused. |
| drenchingnoun | The act by which something is drenched; a soaking. |
| dippernoun | A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop. |
| dunk tanknoun | A large tank of water, over which a dunk seat is suspended, which seat can be made to tip or fall into the tank of water, thus dunking whoever is sitting on the seat. It is used as an attraction mainly used in funfairs. |
| drenchnoun | An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting. |
| duck diveverb | (surfing) To push one's surfboard (usually a shortboard) underwater nose-first, to get the surfer and board under a wave that has broken or is just about to break. |
| dunkfestnoun | (slang, rare, basketball) A game involving many dunks. |
| duckingverb | An instance of ducking down, e.g. to hide. |
| dowsenoun | A surname. |
| deep divenoun | (idiomatic, often with into or on) An in-depth examination or analysis of a topic. |
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