What part of speech is dunk?

Dunk can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. dunk is a verb, present, 1st person singular of dunk (infinitive).
  • 2. dunk is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. dunk is a noun, singular of dunks.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does dunk mean?

Definitions

Verb

dunk - 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"
dunk - dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
dunk - make a dunk shot, in basketball; "He dunked the ball"

Noun

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

Examples of dunk

#   Sentence  
1. noun It looks like a slam dunk.
2. verb Tom likes to dunk his biscuit in his coffee.
3. verb With yesterday's stale bread, my mother would make slices and fry them in olive oil to make us some delicious picatostes. Then, we'd spread chocolate on them or dunk them right in our cups.
4. verb I often dunk crispbread into my tea.
Sentence  
noun
It looks like a slam dunk.
verb
Tom likes to dunk his biscuit in his coffee.
With yesterday's stale bread, my mother would make slices and fry them in olive oil to make us some delicious picatostes. Then, we'd spread chocolate on them or dunk them right in our cups.
I often dunk crispbread into my tea.

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