单词 | dank |
释义 | dank (once / 3930 pages) adj You can describe something that is unpleasantly cool, damp, and clammy as dank. If you have ever visited a cave or unfinished basement, you know how a dank place feels. Yuck. The adjective dank is often used to describe places that would have moist or damp walls. A dank cave can provide hundreds of bats shelter, but you probably wouldn't want to visit them. Tunnels can also be choice dank locations: "The tunnel under the harbor was always dank, and the workers constantly had to battle mold and lichen on the tile walls." One way to remember dank's meaning is to think of dark since they share three letters and seem to go together; a dank place is often a dark one as well. WORD FAMILYdank: danker, dankest, dankly, dankness USAGE EXAMPLESThe dank holes are dangerous places, he says, because sharp objects are sometimes thrown down. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) Amidst the “dank memes” and “drugs that make the music suck less,” Crystal and Jack realize they may have more in common than they thought. Time(Nov 29, 2016) I was drunk, nearing my 35th birthday this past May, alone in a dank college dorm room, attending my five-year grad school reunion. The Guardian(Nov 26, 2016) adj unpleasantly cool and humid a dank cellar dank rain forests Syn clammy wet covered or soaked with a liquid such as water |
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