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dusk noun [ dʌsk ]

• the darker stage of twilight.
• "dusk was falling rapidly"
Similar: twilight, nightfall, sunset, sundown, evening, close of day, dark, darkness, semi-darkness, gathering darkness, gloom, gloominess, murk, murkiness, shades of evening, gloaming, eventide, eve, even, evenfall, tenebrosity, owl light, crepuscule,
Opposite: dawn, daylight,

dusk verb

• grow dark.
• "the sky dusked and the shadows got long and hard"

dusk adjective

• shadowy, dim, or dark.
• "the dusk demesnes of night"
Origin: Old English dox ‘dark, swarthy’ and doxian ‘darken in colour’, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tusin ‘darkish’; compare with dun1 The noun dates from the early 17th century The change in form from -x to -sk occurred in Middle English.


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