plunge
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plunge¹
- /plʌnd͡ʒ/
Rhymes with -ʌndʒ
Where it comes from
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.
verb plunges · plunging · plunged
- To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. to plunge the body into water
- To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action. to plunge a dagger into the breast
- To baptize by immersion.
- To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself. he plunged into the river
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition. to plunge into debt
- To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. [N]ature affects a looſe kinde of liberty, vvhich it cannot indure to have reſtrained: neither fares it othervviſe vvith it, then vvith ſome vvilde colt; which at the firſt taking up, flings and plunges, and vvill ſtand on no ground; but after it hath been ſomvvhile diſciplin'd at the Poſt, is grovv
- To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle). Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.
- To overwhelm, overpower.
noun plunges
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water). to take the water with a plunge
- 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.
plunge²
- /plʌnd͡ʒ/
Rhymes with -ʌndʒ
Where it comes from
Back-formation from plunger.
verb plunges · plunging · plunged
- To remove a blockage by suction. to plunge a toilet
