Declined Swim At Sports Day Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "DIPPED" which means:

adjective satellite
• • Having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)
verb
• • To lower into a liquid.
• • To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• • (of a value or rate) to decrease slightly.
• • To lower a light's beam.
• • To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. while lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” a flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
• • To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
• • To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
• • To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
• • To immerse for baptism.
• • To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• • To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• • To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
• • To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
• • To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• • To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
• • To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
• • To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
• • To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
• • To leave.
• • To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
adjective
• • That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
• • Of headlights: lowered.
• • Caught up in debt; mortgaged.

An example sentence would be:

• • "She served a dish of chocolate dipped strawberries."
• • "The children enjoyed eating their ice cream cones with a chocolate dipped top."

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