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Dunker vs Dusker - What's the difference?

dunker | dusker |

As a noun dunker

is someone who dunks.

As an adjective dusker is

comparative of dusk.

dunker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who dunks.
  • (basketball) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    dusker

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (dusk)

    • dusk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
  • A darkish colour.
  • * Dryden
    • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

    Synonyms

    * sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespers

    Antonyms

    * dawn

    Hyponyms

    * gloaming * twilight

    See also

    *

    See also

    * crepuscular

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
  • * , More Poems , XXXIII, lines 25-27
    • I see the air benighted
    And all the dusking dales,
    And lamps in England lighted,
  • To make dusk.
  • * Holland
    • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  • * Milton
    • A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

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