plummets

Meaning of plummets

verb, 3rd person present
  1. fall or drop straight down at high speed.
    a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully
plural noun
  1. a steep and rapid fall or drop.
    the bird has a circular display flight followed by an earthward plummet
  2. a plumb or plumb line.

late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French plommet ‘small sounding lead’, diminutive of plomb ‘lead’. The current verb sense dates from the 1930s.

Information about plummets

  • The singular form of plummets is: plummet.
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Hyphenation of plummets

plum-mets

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • plummets is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

plummets synonyms

Meaning jump or dive quickly and energetically:

plunge

Meaning move or cause to move at high speed, typically in an uncontrolled manner:

hurtle

Meaning (of an aircraft) make a nosedive:

nosedive

Meaning plunge head first into water with one's arms raised over one's head:

dive

Meaning let or make (something) fall vertically:

drop

Meaning (of a vehicle) collide violently with an obstacle or another vehicle:

crash

Anagrams of plummets

plummest

Words that rhyme with plummets

mets, Tagamets, ramets, entremets, guillemets, helmets, pelmets, emmets, grommets, grummets, mammets, mommets, comets, gromets, armets, cermets, gourmets, Kismets, kismets, calumets, fumets, maumets, fewmets, mawmets

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