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dunk collapse: a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket; 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"

douse collapse: slacken; "douse a rope"; lower quickly; "douse a sail"; wet thoroughly; put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"

engulf collapse: flow over or cover completely; "The bright light engulfed him completely"

bury collapse: place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods"; embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"; cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"; place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"

garrote collapse: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation; strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"

hold down collapse: restrain; "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"; keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs"

stultify collapse: cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"; prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"

immerse collapse: thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in hot water"; enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

starve collapse: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"; deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"; deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"; be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

submerge collapse: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"; put under water; "submerge your head completely"; sink below the surface; go under or as if under water

baptize collapse: administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized"

quench collapse: cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"; reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance; satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"; electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device

overwhelm collapse: charge someone with too many tasks; overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

drown collapse: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"; get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"; kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"

sop collapse: a concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a sop to my feelings"; piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid; dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce"; be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid; give a conciliatory gift or bribe to

suffocate collapse: feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"; be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"; suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"; become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"; impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

souse collapse: pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled; cook in a marinade; "souse herring"; become drunk or drink excessively

censor collapse: a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable; someone who censures or condemns; subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

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