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Dusk vs Rusk - What's the difference?

dusk | rusk |

As a noun dusk

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

As a verb dusk

is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.

As an adjective dusk

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

As a proper noun rusk is

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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

    *

    rusk

    English

    (wikipedia rusk)

    Noun

  • a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
  • * 1719:
    • ...he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
  • a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback )
  • * '>citation
  • a weaning food for children
  • a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

    • Synonyms

    * Brussels biscuit * twice-baked bread * zwieback