Dunking

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  • verb. Present participle of dunk.
  • noun. The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
  • noun. Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
  • Word Usage
    "Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb want to call torturers 'American heroes' and make light of waterboarding by calling it 'dunking' - ought to believe in making its use widespread."
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    baptism  brewing  burial  dip  dipping  
    verb-stem
    dunk