plummet
Meaning of plummet
noun
- A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, a plumb bob or a plumb line
- Hence, any weight
- A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines)
- A plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line
- Violent or dramatic fall
- A decline; a fall; a drop
- To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.
Information about plummet
- The plural form of plummet is: plummets.
- Languages in which plummet is used:
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Hyphenation of plummet
plum-met
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- plummet is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
plummet synonyms
Meaning plumb bob:
Meaning plump:
Meaning :
plummet antonyms
Meaning :
ascend, rise, rocket, skyrocket, soar
Translation of plummet
- French: chuter
- Spanish: precipitarse, desplomarse
- Italian: precipitare
Anagrams of plummet
Words that rhyme with plummet
mammet, Emmet, emmet, semmet, dimmet, grommet, mommet, pommet, intermmet, grummet
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