as in to dip
to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid dunking a doughnut in one's morning coffee

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Recent Examples on the Web Visitors could meet and greet police and firefighters, sit in their vehicles, play corn hole, play basketball, ride mini police motorcycles and get three tries to dunk police officers in the dunk tank. Nhat V. Meyer, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024 The method is ice sheets, which are bed linens dunked in ice water and wrapped around the body. Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2024 For smaller fruits, dunk the fruit into the mixture and gently scrub. Claire Hoppe, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2024 Try spraying a little isopropyl alcohol on a microfiber cloth, rub on stubborn stains, and dunk keycaps in the soapy water again to rinse. Simon Hill, WIRED, 7 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for dunk 

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“Dunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunk. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.

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