Dank \Dank\, a. [Cf. dial, Sw. dank a moist place in a field,
Icel. d["o]kk pit, pool; possibly akin to E. damp or to
daggle dew.]
Damp; moist; humid; wet.
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Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
--Milton.
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Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground. --Trench.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dank \Dank\, n.
Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dank \Dank\, n.
A small silver coin current in Persia.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dank
adj : unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy
weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" [syn: clammy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "dank":
boggy, damp, dampish, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, muggy,
rainy, roric, roriferous, sticky, swampy, tacky, undried, wet,
wettish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
clammy
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