Definition of plunge

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Plunge (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse..

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Airometer :: Airometer (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water..
Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again..
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy..
Immersed :: Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid..
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..
Header :: Header (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header..
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.
Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
Enwallow :: Enwallow (v. t.) To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow..
Implunge :: Implunge (v. t.) To plunge.
Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
Emerge :: Emerge (v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity..
Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt..
Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Poach :: Poach (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything..
Dive :: Dive (v. t.) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations..
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