dip
verb (used with object)
to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid.
dipt
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past participleof dip.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof dip.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
dipverb (used with object)to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid.
Example Sentences
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For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see .
From Time Magazine Archive
Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Heads of the Wasps, being dipt in Blood, is good for Dace, and Dare; as is likewise the Ant-flie.
From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Robert Howlett
A hundredweight of lead rolled off his heart, the wrinkle of dejection vanished from his brow, and his eyes were enlightened, as if he had dipt his staff in honey and tasted thereof.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
It should be covered over with a Compress dipt in sweet Oil, or with the Cerecloth Nº.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
