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Dipped vs Sank - What's the difference?

dipped | sank |

As verbs the difference between dipped and sank

is that dipped is past tense of dip while sank is simple past of sink.

As an adjective dipped

is that has been briefly immersed in a liquid.

dipped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dip)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
  • Of headlights: lowered.
  • (archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
  • *1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
  • *:The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].
  • sank

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sink)
  • English irregular simple past forms ----