as in damp
slightly or moderately wet
vegetables tended to go bad quickly in the dank cellar
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Think of the famous scene: wise men navigating by the stars—flaming constellations against a fathomless sky—searching the dank nooks of Rome’s empire for an incandescent child.
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
But a mood is brewed — dank and laced with hints of fantasy — and if Peter Strickland and Alex Garland got to these ideas sooner, those guys are swell company to be in.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
On a dank quay beneath Paris’s Pont Alexandre III, a beauty moment of epic proportions was born.
—Jessica Diner, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2025
In the dull, dank dark So where were the most diverse bacterial and archaeal populations?
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
But a mood is brewed — dank and laced with hints of fantasy — and if Peter Strickland and Alex Garland got to these ideas sooner, those guys are swell company to be in.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
On a dank quay beneath Paris’s Pont Alexandre III, a beauty moment of epic proportions was born.
—Jessica Diner, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2025
In the dull, dank dark So where were the most diverse bacterial and archaeal populations?
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Dank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dank. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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