Word.ws English Dictionary

shunked

shunked is the simple past and past participle of shunk.

Meaning of shunk

Verb

shunk (third-person singular simple present shunks, present participle shunking, simple past and past participle shunked)

  1. To impact and penetrate something with a heavy sound, like a blade hitting wood.
    • […] the bitt [of the axe] shunked into the jamb and stuck. Dog brought up his short sword […]2019 January 21, Robert Low, Beasts Beyond The Wall, Canelo, →ISBN

See all 2 meanings of shunk

Questions about shunked

What is shunked the simple past and past participle of?
Shunked is the simple past and past participle of shunk.

Words near shunked in the dictionary

  1. shungites
  2. shungitic
  3. Shunhe
  4. Shuniah
  5. shunk
  6. shunked
  7. shunking
  8. shunks
  9. shunless
  10. shunnable
  11. shunned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shunked (page history and authors); shunk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shunked.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shunked. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.