Definition of plunge

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Plunge (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..

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Plunger :: Plunger (n.) One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Douse :: Douse (v. t.) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
Alfet :: Alfet (n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.
Mire :: Mire (v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon..
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out..
Enwallow :: Enwallow (v. t.) To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow..
Implunge :: Implunge (v. t.) To plunge.
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..
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.
Dive :: Dive (n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively..
Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east..
Fishhawk :: Fishhawk (n.) The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard..
Airometer :: Airometer (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water..
Emplunge :: Emplunge (v. t.) To plunge; to implunge.
Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
Ducker :: Ducker (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver..
Poach :: Poach (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything..
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