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| plunge | |
| 1. v. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse. |  |
| to plunge the body into water | |
| 2. v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action. | |
| to plunge a dagger into the breast; to plunge a nation into war | |
| 3. v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself. | |
| he plunged into the river | |
| 5. v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition. | |
| to plunge into debt; to plunge into controversy | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower. | |
| 9. n. the act of plunging or submerging | |
| 10. n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water) | |
| to take the water with a plunge | |
| A plunge into the sea | |
| 11. n. (dated) A swimming pool | |
| 12. n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse | |
| 13. n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty | |
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