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ducked

duck
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [duhk]
    • /dʌk/
    • /dʌk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [duhk]
    • /dʌk/

Definitions of ducked word

  • verb without object ducked to stoop or bend suddenly; bob. 1
  • verb without object ducked to avoid or evade a blow, unpleasant task, etc.; dodge. 1
  • verb without object ducked to plunge the whole body or the head momentarily under water. 1
  • verb without object ducked Cards Informal. to play a card lower than the card led. 1
  • verb with object ducked to lower suddenly: Duck your head going through that low doorway. 1
  • verb with object ducked to avoid or evade (a blow, unpleasant task, etc.); dodge: to duck a hard right; to duck an embarrassing question. 1

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Origin of ducked

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English duken, douken; cognate with German tauchen to dive, ducken to duck

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Ducked

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

ducked popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for ducked

noun ducked

  • canvased — Simple past tense and past participle of canvas.
  • goosed — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
  • dived — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
  • plunged — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • feinted — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.

verb ducked

  • stooped — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
  • bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
  • bowed — Something that is bowed is curved.
  • bobbed — If a woman's hair is bobbed, it is cut in a bob.
  • nodded — to make a slight, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command.

Antonyms for ducked

verb ducked

  • confronted — Simple past tense and past participle of confront.
  • faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
  • met — simple past tense and past participle of meet1 .
  • ascended — to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.

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