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dippingverbpresent participle of dip to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquidfirst dip a paper towel in water she dipped a hand into her pocket and pulled out a piece of candy dousing(also dowsing), ducking, dunking, immersing, sopping, sousing, submerging, submersing bathing, moistening, soaking, steeping, wettingdrenching, drowning, floodingdiving, plunging, thrusting to lift out with something that holds liquidcarefully dipped water from the bucket to the kettle bucketing, lading, ladling, scooping, spooning bailingdepleting, draining, eliminating, emptying, exhaustingbleeding, drawing (off)dishingsloppingdecanting, drawing, pumping, siphoning(also syphoning), suctioning pouringfilling to go to a lower level especially abruptlythe temperature dipped a bit in the evening crashing, cratering, declining, descending, diving, dropping, falling, lowering, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, sinking, skidding, tumbling abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, drooping, dwindling, dying (down), ebbing, lessening, letting up, moderating, subsiding, tapering off, waningreceding, retreating arising, ascending, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, spiking, upping accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mushrooming, picking up, snowballing, swelling, waxing to lead or extend downwardslow down, the road dips here declining, descending, dropping, falling, plunging, sinking angling, canting, cocking, heeling, inclining, leaning, listing, reclining, slanting, sloping, tilting, tipping arising, ascending, climbing, mounting, rising, uprising, upsweeping, upturning evening, flattening, leveling(or levelling), planing, smoothing, straightening to take a quick or hasty lookI dipped into the book, but I didn't have a chance to study it thoroughly browsing, glancing, glimpsing, glinting, peeking, skimming keeking(chiefly Scottish), peepingblinking, squintinglooking over, perusing, raking, scanning gazing, staring examining, overlooking, overseeing, questioning, surveyingstudying, viewingpeering, pryinggawking, goggling, rubberneckingleering, ogling |