plunge
noun
1. a brief swim in water
Similar word(s): dip
Definition categories: act, swim, swimming
2. a steep and rapid fall
Definition categories: event, drop, fall
Sentences with plunge as a noun:
- to take the water with a plunge
- plunge in the sea
verb
1. thrust or throw into
Similar word(s): immerse
Definition categories: contact, penetrate, perforate
2. drop steeply
- the stock market plunged
Definition categories: motion, descend, fall
3. dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- She plunged at it eagerly
Definition categories: motion, dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot
4. begin with vigor
- She plunged into a dangerous adventure
Similar word(s): launch
Definition categories: change, begin, commence, get, start
5. cause to be immersed
- The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text
Similar word(s): immerse
Definition categories: cognition
6. fall abruptly
- It plunged to the bottom of the well
Similar word(s): dump
Definition categories: motion, drop
7. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
Similar word(s): dip, douse, dunk, souse
Definition categories: contact, immerse, plunge
8. devote (oneself) fully to
Similar word(s): absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, steep
Definition categories: cognition, center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet
Sentences with plunge as a verb:
- to plunge the body into water
- to plunge a dagger into the breast;
- he plunged into the river
- to plunge into debt;