Definition of plunge

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Plunge (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties..

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Implunge :: Implunge (v. t.) To plunge.
Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend..
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..
Force Pump :: Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston..
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..
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..
Dive :: Dive (n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively..
Alfet :: Alfet (n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
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..
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse..
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..
Duck :: Duck (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
Ducker :: Ducker (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver..
Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge..
Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Header :: Header (n.) A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header..
Dowse :: Dowse (v. t.) To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse..
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
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