Definition of dank
: unpleasantly moist or wet
- a dank basement
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dankly
adverb
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Examples of dank in a Sentence
vegetables tended to go bad quickly in the dank cellar
Recent Examples of dank from the Web
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In 420-friendly states, a growing cadre of chefs, confectioners, and entrepreneurs is intent on pulling weed out of its dank past and into our locavore, organic, chef's-menu-laden food present.
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This year’s version took place inside the Cheshire Correctional Institution, a sometimes-dank building with its oldest sections dating back to 1910 and water stains on the ceiling.
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Nor are terpenes, the compounds that Black Hammer uses to imbue beers with that dank cannabis flavor.
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After burying himself in a dank basement apartment and one suspiciously sweaty chair, Jackson was able to reemerge and marry the woman of his dreams.
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Sanders and other artists regularly perform in the 175-year-old Victorian Shiloh church, and its dark, dank spaces set the right tone — ironically — for a work about zombies.
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No pillar of the British food pantheon better illustrates this dank milieu than the chip butty.
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Renzi said of the cave’s cool, dank-smelling walls.
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These compounds don't include any THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, but when added into the hopping process, terpenes can give beer a subtle, dank weed-like flavor.
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Origin and Etymology of dank
Middle English danke
dank Synonyms
Near Antonyms
baked, bone-dry, burned (or burnt), dehydrated, desert, droughty, dusty, parched, scorched, seared, sere (also sear), sunbaked;
Related Words
sultry, summery, sweltering, torrid, tropical;
awash, bathed, doused (also dowsed), drenched, dripping, saturate, saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, soggy, sopping, soppy, soused, steeped, washed, watered, waterlogged, water-soaked;
Synonym Discussion of dank
wet, damp, dank, moist, humid mean covered or more or less soaked with liquid. wet usually implies saturation but may suggest a covering of a surface with water or something (such as paint) not yet dry.
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- slipped on the wet pavement
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- clothes will mildew if stored in a damp place
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- a prisoner in a cold, dank cell
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- treat the injury with moist heat
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- a hot, humid climate
DANK Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of dank for English Language Learners
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: wet and cold in a way that is unpleasant
DANK Defined for Kids
adjective
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Definition of dank for Students
danker;
dankest
: unpleasantly wet or moist
- a dank cave
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