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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



... inquiry was struck by the expression of Derues' countenance and by this half answer, which appeared to hide a mystery and to aim at diverting attention by offering a bait to curiosity. He might have stopped Derues at the moment when he sought to plunge into a tortuous argument, and compelled him to answer with the same clearness and decision which distinguished Monsieur de Lamotte's question; but he reflected that the latter's inquiries, unforeseen, hasty, and passionate, were perhaps more likely to disconcert a prepared defence ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - DERUES • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
... of the breaking pitcher and Mary's wild plunge back into bed, Joyce sat up in alarm, but in response to her whisper Mary explained in muffled tones from under the bedclothes that she had simply gotten up for a drink of water and dropped the pitcher. All the rest of the night her sleep was fitful and ...
— The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor • Annie Fellows Johnston
... bought a morning paper from a tiny newsboy, who held his complete attire under one arm, his papers under the other, and his pennies in his mouth, keeping meantime a shifty side-glance on the policeman a block away, who might be expected to interfere with his contemplated plunge. ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... never again to plunge his lurid face beneath the waves of old Ocean? Had some latter-day Joshua arisen, and with stern fiat nailed him in mid-heavens, blazing forever? To me as slowly rolled the westering orb down that final slope as ever turned the wheel of Fortune to Murad ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various
... will, I dare say, make another plunge when he finds Claremont will not be at his personal disposal, as ...
— A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II • Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough)


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