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dusk
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[duhsk] 
–noun
| 1. | the state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight. |
| 2. | partial darkness; shade; gloom: She was barely visible in the dusk of the room. |
dusk
2 [duhsk] –adjective
| 1. | tending to darkness; dark. |
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
| 2. | to make or become dusk; darken. |
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME duske (adj.), dusken (v.); metathetic alter. of OE dox dusky, doxian to turn dark; c. L. fuscus dark
bef. 1000; ME duske (adj.), dusken (v.); metathetic alter. of OE dox dusky, doxian to turn dark; c. L. fuscus dark
Related forms:
duskish, adjective
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| dusk (dŭsk) n. The darker stage of twilight, especially in the evening. adj. Tending to darkness; dusky. intr. & tr.v. dusked, dusk·ing, dusks To become or make dark or dusky. [From Middle English, dark, alteration of Old English dox.] |
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Dusk
Dusk\, a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. ???.] Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton.Dusk
Dusk\, n. 1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. 2. A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. --Dryden.Dusk
Dusk\, v. t. To make dusk. [Archaic] After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. --Holland.Dusk
Dusk\, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer.
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Language Translation for : dusk
Spanish:
crepúsculo,
German:
die Abenddämmerung,
Japanese:
たそがれ
dusk
O.E. dox "dark-haired, dark from the absence of light" (cognate with Swed. duska "be misty," L. fuscus "dark," Skt. dhusarah "dust-colored"). Modern form is perhaps via a Northumbrian variant. A color word originally; the sense of "twilight" is recorded from 1622.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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