plunge
Meaning of plunge
verb
- jump or dive quickly and energetically.
our little daughters whooped as they plunged into the sea
- push or thrust quickly.
he plunged his hands into his pockets
- an act of jumping or diving into water.
fanatics went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge
late Middle English: from Old French plungier ‘thrust down’, based on Latin plumbum ‘lead, plummet’.
Information about plunge
- The plural form of plunge is: plunges.
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Hyphenation of plunge
plunge
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- plunge is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
plunge synonyms
Meaning dip:
Meaning immerse:
Meaning dive:
Meaning launch:
Meaning dump:
Meaning dunk:
Meaning steep:
steep, immerse, engulf, engross, absorb
Meaning push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet:
Meaning push suddenly or violently in a specified direction:
Meaning a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree:
Meaning roughly force (something) into place:
Meaning force (a stake or nail) into place by hitting or pushing it:
Meaning poke roughly or quickly, especially with something sharp or pointed:
Meaning thrust a knife or other pointed weapon into (someone) so as to wound or kill:
Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:
Meaning push (someone or something) roughly:
Meaning make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force:
Meaning descend from a higher to a lower position; drop downwards:
Meaning a steep downward plunge by an aircraft:
Meaning a decrease in size, number, rate, or level:
Meaning the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone:
Meaning a small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface:
Meaning a steep and rapid fall or drop:
Meaning an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling:
Meaning a rapid fall in amount or value:
Meaning having a full rounded shape:
Translation of plunge
- German: eintauchen
- French: plonger, plongeon
- Portuguese: mergulhar
- Italian: tuffarsi, tuffo
- Spanish: clavado
Anagrams of plunge
Words that rhyme with plunge
chaunge, enraunge, enterchaunge, eschaunge, maunge, raunge, straunge, scunge, funge, gunge, thunge, blunge, emplunge, implunge, lunge, muskallunge, muskellunge, muskelunge, replunge, slunge, splunge, unplunge, velunge, wimlunge, emunge, munge, Lounge, lounge, rounge, scrounge, skylounge, slounge, strounge, dispunge, expunge, spunge, Runge, grunge, scrunge, Tunge, axunge
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