plunge
IPA: pɫˈʌndʒ
noun
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- (dated) A swimming pool.
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- (obsolete) An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.
verb
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
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Examples of "plunge" in Sentences
- Dog survives 40ft plunge off cliff.
- The bus plunges off the cliff and crashes.
- The girl plunged into the lake and drowned.
- The cutter first plunges to drill the hole.
- The height of the plunge is actually 320 feet.
- Sen plunged headlong into the freedom struggle.
- Tata Motors sales plunge 4 percent in September.
- I plunged into the lesson and classics of the knowledge.
- Knowledge has plunged into the abyss of decrepitude and destitution.
- The Prince of Wales was plunged into debt by his exorbitant lifestyle.
- Davis scored on a fourth-down plunge from the 1 to give Clemson a 17-10 lead.
- How did Louis Drax, a deeply disturbed, accident-prone nine-year-old, plunge from a cliff at a family picnic?
- But keeping them in amid a market plunge is a goal that trading firms and even Ms. Schapiro say may prove complicated.
- So, following the same logic, if you decide to plunge from a skyscraper, then you will blame the sidewalk, for being there.
- Free-floating fears, too, that morph into whatever shape currently needed to keep the writer from taking whatever plunge is required just now.
- The American people were too fixated on foreign affairs and values and they got the second Bush administration which was a downward plunge from a very low point.
- Beyond the present benefits of economic stimulus, the current sharp home-price plunge is also a unique, once-in-a-generation window to establish a stable stock of long-term, affordable, shared equity housing.
- In particular, Mr. Mainwald said options activity in General Motors suggested that many investors are still looking for a near-term plunge in its stock -- a scenario he believes is less likely in light of a deal approved by bondholders.
- It irrigates a score of mountain meadows before it makes the plunge and is clarified to crystal clearness in the next few rugged miles; and at the plunge from the highlands it generates half the power and all the lighting used on the ranch.