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Dipped

verb
/dɪpt/
Word Frequency: 2.4

Definitions

1.verbTo lower into a liquid.
"Dip your biscuit into your tea."
2.verbTo immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
3.verb(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
4.verbTo lower a light's beam.
"Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car."
5.verbTo lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
"“The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”"
6.verbTo treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
"The farmer is going to dip the cattle today."
7.verbTo use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
8.verbTo consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
9.verbTo immerse for baptism.
10.verbTo wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
11.verbTo plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
12.verbTo take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
"to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water"
13.verbTo perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
14.verbTo engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
15.verbTo perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
16.verbTo incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
"Strata of rock dip."
17.verbTo perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
18.verbTo lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
19.verbTo leave.
"He dipped out of the room so fast."
20.verbTo miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
21.adjectiveThat has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
22.adjectiveOf headlights: lowered.
23.adjectiveCaught up in debt; mortgaged.

Synonyms

swaybackedswaybacklordoticunfitsoakeddrenchedfellimmersededgedlowdroppedtinplate

Rhymes With

quippedcryptrippedtranscriptscriptmanuscriptclippedstripped
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