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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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
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see .
From Time Magazine Archive
Apply to the head clothes dipt in cold water.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
To this purpose the Intestines are to be rank'd along the side of the Wound, and a Bolster is to be laid upon 'em dipt in warm Wine, which may be held by some Assistant.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
Having dipt into some parts, he read with such delight that the palpitations of his heart compelled him to lay the volume down.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
