Definition of plunge

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Plunge (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

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Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east..
Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge..
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend..
Enwallow :: Enwallow (v. t.) To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow..
Douse :: Douse (v. t.) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
Dive :: Dive (v. t.) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger..
Mire :: Mire (v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon..
Header :: Header (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header..
Emplunge :: Emplunge (v. t.) To plunge; to implunge.
Dive :: Dive (n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively..
Ram :: Ram (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.
Dive :: Dive (v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
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..
Airometer :: Airometer (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water..
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