dipt

Verb

dip (third-person singular simple present dips, present participle dipping, simple past and past participle dipped)

1. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
   • Dip your biscuit into your tea.
2. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
   • The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC
3. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
4. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
   • Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.
5. (transitive) 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.
6. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
   • The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

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