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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishplungen,ploungen,Anglo-Normanplungier, fromOld Frenchplongier, (Modern Frenchplonger), from unattestedLate Latin frequentative*plumbicō(“to throw a leaded line”), fromplumbum(“lead”). Compareplumb,plounce.

Verb

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plunge (third-person singular simple presentplunges,present participleplunging,simple past and past participleplunged)

  1. (transitive) Tothrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; toimmerse.
    toplunge the body into water
    • 1936,Norman Lindsay,The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page53:
      "Most of them don't wash. Those who do usuallyplunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about."
  2. (figuratively, transitive) Tocast,stab orthrow deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
    toplunge a dagger into the breast
    toplunge a nation into war
    the city wasplunged into darkness
    • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, inThe A.V. Club‎[1], archived fromthe original on22 May 2019:
      Jon isn’t lying when he tells her she will always be his queen, right beforeplunging a knife into her. He genuinely swore obedience, and sees himself as a traitor when he commits the deeds.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) Tobaptize by immersion.
  4. (intransitive) Todive,leap orrush (into water or some liquid); tosubmerge oneself.
    heplunged into the river
  5. (figuratively, intransitive) Tofall orrush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
    Synonym:slump
    toplunge into debt
    toplunge into controversy
    profitsplunge 90%
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now weplunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
    • 2022 August 17, Chris Isidore, “Target profit plunges 90% as inflation-weary shoppers pull back”, inCNN‎[2]:
      Target reported profitplunged 90% in the second quarter, falling far short of expectations, as inflation-weary customers pulled back on spending on nonessential items.
  6. (intransitive) Topitch orthrow oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
    • 1648,J[oseph] Hall, chapter LXXXVI, inSelect Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published1654,→OCLC,pages249–250:
      [N]ature affects a looſe kinde of liberty, vvhich it cannot indure to have reſtrained: neither fares it othervviſe vvith it, then vvith ſome vvilde colt; which at the firſt taking up, flings andplunges, and vvill ſtand on no ground; but after it hath been ſomvvhile diſciplin'd at the Poſt, is grovvn tractable, and quietly ſubmits either to the ſaddle, or the collar:[…]
  7. (intransitive, slang) Tobet heavily and recklessly; torisk large sums in gambling.
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) Toentangle orembarrass (mostly used in past participle).
  9. (intransitive, obsolete) Tooverwhelm,overpower.
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Translations
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to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse
(figuratively, transitive) to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action
(intransitive) to dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself
(figuratively, intransitive) to fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition
(intransitive) to pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does
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Noun

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plunge (pluralplunges)

  1. The act ofplunging orsubmerging.
  2. Adive,leap,rush, or pitch into (into water).
    to take the water with aplunge
    Aplunge into the sea
  3. (dated) Aswimming pool.
  4. (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneselfheadlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
  5. (slang) Heavy and recklessbetting in horse racing; hazardousspeculation.
    Synonym:plunger
  6. (obsolete) An immersion indifficulty,embarrassment, ordistress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; astrait;difficulty.
Derived terms
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Translations
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The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge

Etymology 2

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Back-formation fromplunger.

Verb

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plunge (third-person singular simple presentplunges,present participleplunging,simple past and past participleplunged)

  1. (transitive) To remove ablockage bysuction.
    toplunge a toilet

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