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Dusk vs Dush - What's the difference?

dusk | dush |

As verbs the difference between dusk and dush

is that dusk is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk while dush is to strike or push violently; to strike with the horns; butt.

As a noun dusk

is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.

As an adjective dusk

is tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

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.

    Anagrams

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    dush

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To strike or push violently; (of an animal) to strike with the horns; butt.
  • To fall violently; dash down; move with violence.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)/(l)