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dusk
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. n. 1 A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets. 2 A darkish colour. v 1 (context intransitive English) to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES from dawn to dusk (= through the whole day while it is light ) ▪ We worked from dawn to dusk . the gathering darkness/dusk/shadows etc ▪ the evening’s gathering shadows COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE gathering ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dusk is the time of day just after sunset. Dusk may also refer to:
Usage examples of dusk.
Unless we can wipe them all out before dusk our airfield will be threatened by nightfall.
Next he was on gravel, gaining speed again, spinning up a swirl of dust behind him as he drove on toward the house and barn, their structures now in dusk, the alpenglow abruptly gone, the sun behind the mountains.
Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm?
At dusk he anchored for the night in the tee of one of the larger islands.
Sharpe had made a brief excursion in the dusk and had returned with two clay bottles filled with arrack, and they drank the liquor in the gloom.
That evening, while a dull glow still lingered in the western sky, though the shadows of dusk were fallen on the fort and its surroundings, Major Hester passed the sentry at one of the gates and walked slowly, as though for an aimless stroll, as far as the little French-Canadian church.
By the time everyone was assembled for the long walk down Bekke Farm Road, it was dusk.
Quimbleton, poor bereaved fellow, would sit by me in the dusk and revel with the spirit of his dear comrade.
Ben trooped out at dawn, trooped back again at dusk and never saw Bunion once.
Rafe was out on the terrace, admiring the view in the dusk light and thinking that this place really was a fantasy come true when Isabel emerged from the bure, looking like something out of the Arabian Nights.
If Maisie Traill was to be believed, Albert Caddie could not have murdered Louise Rogers at dusk on Friday the eighth, afterwards driving her car to Basingstoke.
Dusk was deepening into night as a low, sprawling, palisaded building that could only be the caravanserai came into view ahead.
That was an evening of rare beauty, and warm enough already for an early chafer to go blooming in the dusk.
Viviana raged alone among the trees at dusk, bitterness eating out the apple of her heart like codling larvae.
Kearint, a minor tributary of the river Darst, and came to the forty-house town of Havering Slides just as dusk was falling.