dip
/dɪp/ verb B2- To lower into a liquid. · Dip your biscuit into your tea.
- To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
- To lower a light's beam. · Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
- To 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.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution. · The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue in order to absorb the desired chemical constituents. · Near-synonym: pack a lip· He started dipping years ago.
He/she/it dips · Past dipped · Past participle dipped · -ing form dipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- dip
- He/she/it
- dips
- Past
- dipped
- Past participle
- dipped
- -ing form
- dipping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The count took another spoon, and again dipped it into the golden box.
The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under the water and drowned him.
A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, “If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you.” The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, “Why?
Dipping marten, plumping trout,
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