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dip - verb

  1. To plunge briefly in or into a liquid: douse, duck, dunk, immerge, immerse, souse, submerge, submerse. See enter.
  2. To immerse in a coloring solution: color, dye. See colors. enter.
  3. To take a substance, as liquid, from a container by plunging the hand or a utensil into it: bail, lade, ladle, scoop(up). See give.
  4. To slope downward: decline, descend, drop, fall, pitch, sink. See rise.

dip into - phrasal verb

  1. To look through reading matter casually: browse, flip through, glance at or over or through, leaf(through), riffle(through), run through, scan, skim, thumb(through). See investigate. words.

dip - noun

  1. The act of swimming: duck, dunk, plunge, swim. See work.
  2. A usually swift downward trend, as in prices: decline, descent, dive, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drop, drop-off, fall, nosedive, plunge, skid, slide, slump, tumble. See increase.
  3. An area sunk below its surroundings: basin, concavity, depression, hollow, pit, sag, sink, sinkhole. See convex.
  4. One deficient in judgment and good sense: ass, fool, idiot, imbecile, jackass, mooncalf, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, simple, simpleton, softhead, tomfool. Informal dope, gander, goose. Slang cretin, ding-dong, goof, jerk, nerd, schmo, schmuck, turkey. See ability.