Plunged Synonyms & Definitions

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• PlungedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Plunge

• PlungeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
2. (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
3. (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
4. (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
5. (v. i.) To pitch or throw ones self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
6. (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
7. (n.) The act of pitching or throwing ones self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
8. (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
9. (v. t.) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.
10. (v. i.) To thrust or cast ones self into water or other fluid; to submerge ones self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.