dipped

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dip +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

dipped

  1. simple past and past participle of dip

Adjective[edit]

dipped (comparative more dipped, superlative most dipped)

  1. That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
  2. Of headlights: lowered.
  3. (archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
    • 1705, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:
      The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].

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