Definition of plunge

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Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

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Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
Implunge :: Implunge (v. t.) To plunge.
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.
Plunge :: Plunge (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..
Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger..
Plunge :: Plunge (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..
Airometer :: Airometer (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water..
Immersed :: Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid..
Blunger :: Blunger (n.) A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger..
Dive :: Dive (v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) One who, or that which, plunges; a diver..
Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..
Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Dive :: Dive (v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid..
Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge..
Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. i.) To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
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