DIPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dipped mean? 

• DIPPED (adjective)
  The adjective DIPPED has 1 sense:

1. having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)

  Familiarity information: DIPPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)

Synonyms:

dipped; lordotic; swayback; swaybacked

Similar:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

 Context examples 

He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Our visit to the hospital took more time than we had reckoned on, and the sun had dipped before we came out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He dipped into this bottle or that, drawing out a few drops of each with his glass pipette, and finally brought a test-tube containing a solution over to the table.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Why don't you eat?" he demanded, as Martin dipped dolefully into the cold, half-cooked oatmeal mush.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Gennaro saw our enemy’s cruel face smiling at him as he dipped his hand in the bag.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he said: “You have dipped your finger into the water, this time it may pass, but take care you do not again let anything go in.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She had written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Vertical tori are 3D-printed upright and are dipped in nickel and platinum.

(Tiny swimming 'doughnuts' deliver the biomedical goods, National Science Foundation)

The bleak, hard, wind-swept road dipped down in front of them into a little valley, and then, writhing up the heathy slope upon the other side, lost itself among the gaunt pine-trees.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On being asked by a mild boy (not me) how he would proceed if he did begin to see him do it, he dipped a match into his phosphorus-box on purpose to shed a glare over his reply, and said he would commence by knocking him down with a blow on the forehead from the seven-and-sixpenny ink-bottle that was always on the mantelpiece.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)