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Plunge   /pləndʒ/   Listen
Plunge

noun
1.
A brief swim in water.  Synonym: dip.
2.
A steep and rapid fall.
verb
(past & past part. plunged; pres. part. plunging)
1.
Thrust or throw into.  Synonym: immerse.
2.
Drop steeply.  Synonyms: dive, plunk.
3.
Dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity.
4.
Begin with vigor.  Synonym: launch.  "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"
5.
Cause to be immersed.  Synonym: immerse.
6.
Fall abruptly.  Synonym: dump.
7.
Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate.  Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse.  "Dip the brush into the paint"
8.
Devote (oneself) fully to.  Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep.



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"Plunge" Quotes from Famous Books



... her name to authorise the enquiry but she could not bear to send it: it would be bad enough that first meeting, without the feeling that he, too, had had time to recall all the past days. Better to go in upon him unprepared, and plunge into the subject. ...
— A Dark Night's Work • Elizabeth Gaskell
... week after the Miles incident, the "Advertiser" gave Harwood the shock of an unlooked-for plunge into ice-water by printing a sensational story under a double-column headline, reading, "The Boss in the Boordman Building." The Honorable Morton Bassett, so the article averred, no longer satisfied to rule his party amid the pastoral calm of Fraser County, had stolen into the capital and secretly ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... clear case of hate at first sight, for the mule began to plunge and squeal the instant it saw her. The woman hesitated not a minute, but lifting her big ham-like foot, she gave it one broadside kick that it must have mistaken for a thunderbolt, and in that low purr of hers, that might frighten a jungle tiger, ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter
... cabaret, Constance took a little tighter grip on herself and decided to take the plunge and see the affair out, although that sort of thing had very little ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve
... they are loose in the field, three or four in a group, under a tree, when it looks as if the slightest movement on their part must crush him; down to the side of the deep broad brook to swim sticks in it for boats, where a slip on the treacherous mud would plunge him in, and where the chance of rescue—everybody being half a mile away at work—would be absolutely nil. The cows come trampling through the yard; the bull bellows in the meadow; great, grunting sows, savage when they have ...
— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies


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