PLUNGE

Plunge

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plunge

Noun

  1. the act of plunging or submerging
  2. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
    to take the water with a plunge
    plunge in the sea
  3. the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
  4. heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
  5. an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty

Verb

  1. to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse;
    to plunge the body into water
  2. to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action
    to plunge a dagger into the breast
    to plunge a nation into war
  3. to baptize by immersion
  4. to dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self
    he plunged into the river
  5. to fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition
    to plunge into debt
    to plunge into controversy
  6. to pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does
  7. to bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations
  8. to entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle)
  9. to overwhelm, overpower


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