plunges

Meaning of plunges

verb, 3rd person present
  1. jump or dive quickly and energetically.
    our little daughters whooped as they plunged into the sea
  2. push or thrust quickly.
    he plunged his hands into his pockets
plural noun
  1. 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 plunges

  • The singular form of plunges is: plunge.
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Hyphenation of plunges

plunges

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • plunges is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

plunges synonyms

Meaning push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet:

jump

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

dive

Meaning push suddenly or violently in a specified direction:

thrust

Meaning a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree:

stick

Meaning roughly force (something) into place:

ram

Meaning force (a stake or nail) into place by hitting or pushing it:

drive

Meaning poke roughly or quickly, especially with something sharp or pointed:

jab

Meaning thrust a knife or other pointed weapon into (someone) so as to wound or kill:

stab

Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:

push

Meaning push (someone or something) roughly:

shove

Meaning make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force:

force

Meaning descend from a higher to a lower position; drop downwards:

sink

Meaning a steep downward plunge by an aircraft:

nosedive

Meaning a decrease in size, number, rate, or level:

fall

Meaning the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone:

pitch

Meaning a small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface:

drop

Meaning a steep and rapid fall or drop:

plummet

Meaning an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling:

descent

Meaning a rapid fall in amount or value:

tumble

Meaning having a full rounded shape:

plump

Anagrams of plunges

pungles, splunge

Words that rhyme with plunges

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