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Dunking
- verb - dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
- make a dunk shot, in basketball; "He dunked the ball"
Dunkirk
- noun - a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat; "the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there"
- a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II
- an amphibious evacuation in World War II (1940) when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
Dunlins
- noun - small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions
Dunning
- verb - cure by salting; "dun codfish"
- make a dun color
- persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
- treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
Dunnish
- - Inclined to a dun color.
Duskier
- adjective - lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
- naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic"
Dustier
- adjective - covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new;