intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To dive, jump, or throw oneself.

intransitive verb. To fall rapidly.

intransitive verb. To devote oneself to or undertake an activity earnestly or wholeheartedly.

intransitive verb. To enter or move headlong through something.

intransitive verb. To slope steeply downward.

intransitive verb. To move forward and downward violently.

intransitive verb. To become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically.

intransitive verb. To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place.

intransitive verb. To cast suddenly, violently, or deeply into a given state or situation.

intransitive verb. To use a plunger to try to unblock (a drain, for example).

noun. The act or an instance of plunging.

noun. A swim; a dip.

noun. A sudden or dramatic decline.

idiom. (take the plunge) To begin an unfamiliar venture, especially after hesitating.

In horticulture, to sink (a pot or box containing a plant) in the ground to the rim or edge. Pots of greenhouse plants are often plunged in the open in warm weather, both for the good of the plants and for their effect in ornamentation.

To turn over (the telescope of a surveyor's transit or theodolite) in a vertical plane, making the object-glass pass underneath. In transiting the telescope it may pass either above or below.

In geology, to dip under the surface: used in reference to such structural features as folds where, unless the axis is perfectly horizontal, one end pitches below the horizon or general surface.

noun. A sudden dive, leap, or dip into something: as, a plunge in the sea.

noun. An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.

noun. A sudden and violent pitching forward of the body, and pitching up of the hind legs, as by an unruly horse

To cast or thrust suddenly into water or some other fluid, or into some penetrable substance; immerse; thrust: as, to plunge one's hand into the water; to plunge a dagger into one's breast.

Figuratively, to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition, or action: as, plunged in grief; to plunge a nation into war.

To entangle or embarrass: used chiefly in the past participle.

To dive, leap, or rush (into water or some fluid).

To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state, or condition: as, to plunge into debt or into a controversy.

To throw the body forward and the hind legs up, as an unruly horse.

To descend precipitously or vertically, as a cliff.

To bet recklessly; gamble for large stakes; speculate.

intransitive verb. To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in. Also used figuratively.

intransitive verb. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

intransitive verb. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.

intransitive verb. firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position.

transitive verb. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust. Also used figuratively.

transitive verb. To baptize by immersion.

transitive verb. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.

noun. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water.

noun. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.

noun. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.

noun. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

noun. an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.

noun. a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.

noun. undefined

noun. the act of plunging or submerging

noun. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)

noun. the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse

noun. heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation

noun. an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty

verb. to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse;

verb. to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action

"How did Louis Drax, a deeply disturbed, accident-prone nine-year-old, plunge from a cliff at a family picnic?"

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