dipped
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How dipped fits the hive
Base Score
6
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
4
D E I P
Two-Letter Start
DI
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ED
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- 6 letters
- 4 unique letters
- DI start
- ED ending
- repeated letters
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- dipped is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include d, e, i, p plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
verb
To lower into a liquid.
"Dip your biscuit into your tea."
verb
To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
verb
(of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
verb
To lower a light's beam.
"Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car."
verb
To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
"“The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”"
verb
To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
"The farmer is going to dip the cattle today."
verb
To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
verb
To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
verb
To immerse for baptism.
verb
To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
verb
To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
verb
To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
"to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water"
verb
To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
verb
To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
verb
To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
verb
To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
"Strata of rock dip."
verb
To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
verb
To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
verb
To leave.
"He dipped out of the room so fast."
verb
To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
adjective
That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
adjective
Of headlights: lowered.
adjective
Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
Related Words
Same Letters
- piped
- pied