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dunk

English

  1. 🔊 a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
  2. 🔊 dip into a liquid while eating
    “She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce”
  3. 🔊 immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
    “dip the garment into the cleaning solution”
  4. 🔊 make a dunk shot, in basketball
    “He dunked the ball”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 machacar to dunk
  2. 🔊 mate dunk, slam dunk (the act of dunking: put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power)

Similar words

dunk shot stuff shot dip dip souse plunge douse baptize bury deluge dip douse drown duck engulf float flood flow on immerge immerse inundate merge overwhelm plunge in water