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plunge
English
Etymology
From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative to throw a leaded line, from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?
Verb
plunge (third-person singular simple present plunges, present participle plunging, simple past and past participle plunged)
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
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. - (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- 1654, Joseph Hall, Select Thoughts, or Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit
- some wild colt, which […] flings and plunges
- 1654, Joseph Hall, Select Thoughts, or Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.
Translations
Noun
plunge (plural plunges)
- the act of plunging or submerging
- a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
- to take the water with a plunge
- A plunge into the sea
- (dated) A swimming pool
- (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
- (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
- (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
Translations
References
- plunge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “plunge”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
Anagrams
- pungle
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falling
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??l??/
- (US) enPR: fäl??ng, IPA(key): /?f?l??/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?f?l??/
- Rhymes: -??l??
Verb
falling
- present participle of fall
Adjective
falling (not comparable)
- That falls or fall.
- a falling leaf
- the falling prices of luxury goods
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
falling (usually uncountable, plural fallings)
- gerund of fall
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
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