PLUNGE
Plunge
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plunge
Noun
- the act of plunging or submerging
- a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
- to take the water with a plunge
- plunge in the sea
- the act of pitching or throwing one's self 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
- to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse;
- to plunge the body into water
- to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action
- to plunge a dagger into the breast
- to plunge a nation into war
- to baptize by immersion
- to dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self
- he plunged into the river
- to fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition
- to plunge into debt
- to plunge into controversy
- to pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does
- to bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations
- to entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle)
- to overwhelm, overpower
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