plunge
Plural: plunges
Noun
- a brief swim in water
- a steep and rapid fall
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- A swimming pool.
- The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.
Verb
Verb Forms: plunged, plunging, plunges
- To jump or dive quickly and energetically into something.
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- "the stock market plunged"
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- "She plunged at it eagerly"
- begin with vigor
- "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"
- cause to be immersed
- "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text"
- fall abruptly
- "It plunged to the bottom of the well"
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- To baptize by immersion.
- To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
- To overwhelm, overpower.
- To remove a blockage by suction.
Examples
- A plunge into the sea
- He decided to PLUNGE into playing a challenging seven-letter word.
- he plunged into the river
- profits plunge 90%
- the city was plunged into darkness
- to plunge a dagger into the breast
- to plunge a nation into war
- to plunge a toilet
- to plunge into controversy
- to plunge into debt
- to plunge the body into water
- to take the water with a plunge
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative *plumbicō (“to throw a leaded line”), from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce.
Synonyms
absorb, dip, dive, douse, dump, dunk, engross, engulf, immerse, launch, plunk, soak up, souse, steep, plunger
Scrabble Score: 9
plunge: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordplunge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
plunge: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary