"dunking" meaning in English

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        "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."
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        "A forceful thrust of the ball through the basket from above."
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        "(basketball) A forceful thrust of the ball through the basket from above."
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          "sense": "submerging",
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          "word": "Eintauchen"
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          "roman": "voútigma",
          "sense": "submerging",
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          "word": "βούτηγμα"
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        "(basketball) A forceful thrust of the ball through the basket from above."
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