verb
- Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate.
- usage: "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
- Dip into a liquid while eating.
- usage: "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
- Go down momentarily.
- usage: "Prices dipped"
- synonyms: dip
- Stain an object by immersing it in a liquid.
- synonyms: dip
- Take a small amount from.
- usage: "I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present"
- synonyms: dip
- Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam.
- Lower briefly.
- usage: "She dipped her knee"
- synonyms: dip
- Appear to move downward.
- usage: "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
- Slope downwards.
- usage: "Our property dips towards the river"
- synonyms: dip
- Dip into a liquid.
- usage: "He dipped into the pool"
- Place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax.
- synonyms: dip
- Immerse in a disinfectant solution.
- usage: "dip the sheep"
- synonyms: dip
- Plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container.
- usage: "He dipped into his pocket"
- synonyms: dip
- Scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface.
- usage: "dip water out of a container"
- synonyms: dip
adjective
- Having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses. ).
- synonyms: lordotic, swayback, swaybacked
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