Dunking vs Ducking - What's the difference?
dunking | ducking |
The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
(basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
(uncountable) The action of the verb to duck .
(countable) An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
As verbs the difference between dunking and ducking
is that dunking is present participle of lang=en while ducking is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between dunking and ducking
is that dunking is the act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool while ducking is the action of the verb to duck.dunking
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(en noun)ducking
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- They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.