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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



... Encyclopaedia" of the year 1861, and also read one or two more books upon his shelves. From these she discovered that there was more in sheep breeding than was covered by the lore of the Three Marshes, and her mind began to plunge adventurously among Southdowns and Leicesters, Black-faced, Blue-faced, and Cumberland sheep. She saw Ansdore famous as a great sheep-breeding centre, with many thousands of pounds coming annually to its ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... ponderous fist, on the face of the man, as he lay beneath him. The hold on his throat loosened, and seeing that they had rolled within reach of his sword, in a moment he had clutched it, and drawing back his elbow, prepared to plunge it ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... Oh plunge me deep in love—put out My senses, leave me deaf and blind, Swept by the tempest of your love, A taper in ...
— Rivers to the Sea • Sara Teasdale
... a letter from the Lord Chief Commissioner, mentioning the King's intention to take care of Charles's interests and promotion in the Foreign Office, an additional reason why I should not plunge rashly into politics, yet not one which I can understand as putting a padlock on my lips neither. I may write to L.C.C. that I may be called on to express an opinion on the impending changes, that I have an opinion, ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... clothes on again and prinked as much as she could. Then she sallied forth, opening and closing the door with pious care. She went to the elevator, and the car began to drop. The elevator-boy politely lowered it without plunge or jolt. ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes


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