Meaning

8 senses

  1. (transitive)To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

    sich ducken, sich schnell bücken, ducken

    пригиба́тьсяprigibátʹsja, пригну́тьсяprignútʹsja, пригиба́тьprigibátʹ

    порина́тиporynáty, ухиля́тиuxyljáty

    to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away

  2. (transitive)To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.

    untertauchen

    окуна́тьokunátʹ, окуну́тьokunútʹ

    зану́рюватиzanúrjuvaty, загли́блюватиzahlýbljuvaty, порина́тиporynáty

    submerge or plunge suddenly

  3. (intransitive)To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.

    dip into a liquid

  4. (intransitive)To bow.

  5. (figuratively, transitive)To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.

    ausweichen

  6. (transitive)To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.

  7. (colloquial, intransitive)To enter a place for a short moment.

    I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?

  8. (transitive)To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).

Examples

286 sentences

  1. I went duck hunting last weekend.

    На минулих вихідних я ходив на полювання на качок. — deniko

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  2. Do you want to buy a duck?

    Хочеш купити качку? — deniko

    ruТы хочешь купить утку? — sharptoothed

    deWillst du eine Ente kaufen? — maaster

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  3. There are ducks on the pond.

    У ставку є качки. — deniko

    ruВ пруду есть утки. — Wezel

    deDa sind Enten auf dem Teich. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Tom went duck hunting.

    Том пішов на полювання на качок. — deniko

    ruТом пошёл на утиную охоту. — marafon

    deTom ging auf Entenjagd. — Jan_Schreiber

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  5. Don't feed the ducks.

    Не годуй качок. — deniko

    ruНе кормите уток. — marafon

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
to quickly lower the head or body (intransitive):
to quickly lower the head (transitive):
to lower into the water:
Русский
By meaning 3
to quickly lower the head or body (intransitive):
to quickly lower the head (transitive):
to lower into the water:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to quickly lower the head or body (intransitive):
to quickly lower the head (transitive):
to lower into the water:
to try to evade doing something:

Origin

From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from

From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”).

Denominal verb of duck (noun) and ellipsis of rubber duck

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Forms

ducks, ducking, ducked, ducked
Base formduck · to duck
3rd person singularducks
Present participleducking
Past simpleducked
Past participleducked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyduck
he, she, itducks

Past simpleLesson

all personsducked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ducked
he, she, ithas ducked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill duck

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

14 synonyms
to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something:dipB2
to lower into the water:dunk
to lower the head:duck down
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words
Relatedducking
Derivedbeduckduckableduck downduckerduck offduck outunduckedduckroll

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

4 patterns
  • went duck hunting
  • duck hunting
  • ducks on the
  • went duck

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dubdubiousduchessducklingduckyduct

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