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Plunge

/plʌndʒ/

The act of plunging or submerging

📖 Definitions of "Plunge"

noun
  1. 1

    The act of plunging or submerging

  2. 2

    A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)

    "A plunge into the sea"

  3. 3

    A swimming pool

  4. 4

    The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse

verb
  1. 1

    To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.

    "to plunge the body into water"

  2. 2

    To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

    "to plunge a dagger into the breast;   to plunge a nation into war"

  3. 3

    To baptize by immersion.

  4. 4

    To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.

    "he plunged into the river"

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