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Definition of '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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Similar to 'dusk'dick, duck, dock, disk, deck, desk, dek, dak, deek, dawk, dook, dhak, dack
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