Synonyms for dunk
dʌŋkdunk

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dunk, dunk shot, stuff shotverb

   a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket

   Synonyms:
   stuff shot, dunk shot

2. dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douseverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   engulf, hit it up, dim, engross, dump, dowse, dive, duck, launch, sink, steep, immerse, souse, sop, soak, plunk, dip, put out, plunge, soak up, drench, douse, inebriate, absorb

3. dunkverb

   make a dunk shot, in basketball

   "He dunked the ball"

   Synonyms:
   douse, plunge, souse, dip

4. dunk, dipverb

   dip into a liquid while eating

   "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"

   Synonyms:
   plunge, duck, douse, souse, dip, dim, sink

Matched Categories

1. • Basketball
   • Immerse
   • Shoot

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "dunk":

   cinch, soak

Suggested Resources

1. DUNK

   What does DUNK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DUNK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

How to pronounce dunk?

How to say dunk in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use dunk in a sentence?

1. Harry Reid:

   They're very hopeful but this isn't anything that's a slam dunk. I had serious injury to my eye, there's blood accumulated there, and they're hoping that resolves itself. As long as the blood is in the eye it's hard to see.

2. Mark Ramseyer:

   There are very few prosecutors in Japan. They are massively overworked. Given the workload, they focus first on the slam dunk, guilty-as-sin cases. They don't have time for the' maybe he did it, maybe he didn't cases,'.

3. Rian Whitton:

   That was quite a slam dunk, they scaled it very impressively and in a short period of time.

4. Phillip Arnold:

   I’m not going to say that it’s not something it’s a slam dunk that we’re going to be able to get rid of if it shows up.

5. Richard Kurland:

   I think the defense has a slam dunk. There are no Iranian sanctions in Canada and anything (the prosecutors bring up) that's related to an Iranian sanction in Canada may well be dismissed.