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"text": "I like to dunk my donut in my apple cider.",
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"To submerge briefly in a liquid."
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
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"_dis1": "95 2 1 2",
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
"word": "mártogat"
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"word": "tunkol"
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
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"english": "to dip",
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"english": "to soak",
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
"word": "douk"
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"sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid",
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"text": "Parents shouldn't just dunk their kids in front of the TV.",
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"text": "The center spun quickly and dunked the ball with authority.",
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"To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power."
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"(transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power."
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"roman": "zabivam",
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"word": "забивам"
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"word": "hansak"
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{
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"roman": "jap⁶ zeon¹",
"sense": "basketball",
"word": "入樽"
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"word": "donkata"
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"roman": "karfóno",
"sense": "basketball",
"word": "καρφώνω"
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{
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"lang": "Hungarian",
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"word": "zsákol"
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{
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"sense": "basketball",
"word": "enterrar"
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{
"_dis1": "5 14 60 20",
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"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "machacar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 14 60 20",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "basketball",
"word": "hacer un mate"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 14 60 20",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "basketball",
"word": "dunka"
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{
"_dis1": "5 14 60 20",
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"sense": "basketball",
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"text": "The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.",
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{
"ref": "2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times",
"text": "To rattle the rats to the point where their stress response remained demonstrably hyperactive, the researchers exposed the animals to four weeks of varying stressors: moderate electric shocks, being encaged with dominant rats, prolonged dunks in water.",
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"word": "dunk shot"
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{
"word": "dunk tank"
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{
"word": "reverse dunk"
},
{
"word": "slam dunk"
},
{
"word": "thunderdunk"
},
{
"word": "alley oop"
},
{
"word": "jam"
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{
"word": "slam"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zabivka",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"word": "забивка"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
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"word": "esmaixada"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"word": "扣籃"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kòulán",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"word": "扣篮"
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{
"code": "fi",
"english": "act or instance",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"word": "donkkaus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "instance",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"word": "donkki"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kárfoma",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "κάρφωμα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "schiacciata"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "enterrada"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dank",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "данк"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mate"
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"masculine"
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"word": "donqueo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "volcada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "clavada"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "machaque"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "basketball dunking",
"word": "smaç"
}
],
"word": "dunk"
}
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