Dunk

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dunk
       n : a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled
           downward into the basket [syn: {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: {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: {dip}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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