Word Meanings - DIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

and to AS. d to baptize, OS. d, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. döpa, Goth. daupjan, Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl hollow, and to E. 1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw

Additional info about word: DIP

and to AS. d to baptize, OS. d, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. döpa, Goth. daupjan, Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl hollow, and to E. 1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again. The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. Lev. iv. 6. now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Pope. While the prime swallow dips his wing. Tennyson. 2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. Book of Common Prayer. Fuller. 3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. Milton. 4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair. He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons. Dryden. 5. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water. 6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. Live on the use and never dip thy lands. Dryden. Dipped candle, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. -- To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. -- To dip the colors , to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIP)

• Depression
• Lowering
• degradation
• debasement
• dejection
• discouragement
• hollow
• valley
• dip
• Immerse
• Dip
• plunge
• sink
• soak
• steep
• macerate
• duck
• submerge
• drown
• inundate
• douse
• overwhelm
• Incline Slope
• bear
• lean
• point
• tend
• dispose
• induce
• bias
• prompt
• slant
• be disposed
• Plunge
• dive
• immerse
• precipitate
• thrust under
• pitch headlong
• Steep Dip
• drench
• imbue

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIP)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade
• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

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  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
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  Disposal. Goodwin.
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  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
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  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
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  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
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  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
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  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
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  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
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