: unpleasantly moist or wet
a dank basement
dankly
adverb
dankness
noun
Examples of dank in a Sentence
vegetables tended to go bad quickly in the dank cellar
Recent Examples on the Web
All of this is performed in a 135,000-square-foot factory in the dankest recesses of Lima, Ohio, by S&S Superior, a company that has been building hearses for 71 years.
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John Phillips, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2023
Behind the excitement of discovery, there is that terrible void again: all the records that have vanished or that, even more tantalizingly, are crumbling away in dank basements.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023
The rail and highway underpasses linking Victory and the Design District would be given new illumination and signage, transforming these dank passages into ceremonial gateways.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
Inside, fans will glimpse iconic game locations including The Hotel Grand and a labyrinth of dark and dank tunnels, and come face-to-face with terrifying Clickers, Raiders, Runners and Stalkers, as well as the band of hostile humans known as The Hunters.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
The complex is now a museum and memorial to Stasi victims, with dank cellblocks and labyrinthine corridors carefully preserved, together with artifacts like paintings and poetry depicting the suffering of detainees.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
But under the sea in the 2023 remake, the ocean is dank and dark, the fish are slimy, scary and bug-eyed and the only thing defying science is Melissa McCarthy's eyeshadow, which stays immaculate underwater.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
The idea of humans evolving in dank rain forests did not appeal to Western scientists who lived in temperate climes.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2011
Project Alpha was run by Joseph Verner Reed, a seemingly upright Chase banker and future ambassador under Reagan, who was shockingly proud of his role in making the hostages suffer months longer, confined and often mistreated in dank basements.
—Jonathan Alter, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
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John Phillips, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2023
Behind the excitement of discovery, there is that terrible void again: all the records that have vanished or that, even more tantalizingly, are crumbling away in dank basements.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023
The rail and highway underpasses linking Victory and the Design District would be given new illumination and signage, transforming these dank passages into ceremonial gateways.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
Inside, fans will glimpse iconic game locations including The Hotel Grand and a labyrinth of dark and dank tunnels, and come face-to-face with terrifying Clickers, Raiders, Runners and Stalkers, as well as the band of hostile humans known as The Hunters.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
The complex is now a museum and memorial to Stasi victims, with dank cellblocks and labyrinthine corridors carefully preserved, together with artifacts like paintings and poetry depicting the suffering of detainees.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
But under the sea in the 2023 remake, the ocean is dank and dark, the fish are slimy, scary and bug-eyed and the only thing defying science is Melissa McCarthy's eyeshadow, which stays immaculate underwater.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
The idea of humans evolving in dank rain forests did not appeal to Western scientists who lived in temperate climes.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2011
Project Alpha was run by Joseph Verner Reed, a seemingly upright Chase banker and future ambassador under Reagan, who was shockingly proud of his role in making the hostages suffer months longer, confined and often mistreated in dank basements.
—Jonathan Alter, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English danke
First Known Use
1573, in the meaning defined above
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“Dank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dank. Accessed 23 Sep. 2023.
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