Definition of plunge

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Plunge (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse..

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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..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
Demerge :: Demerge (v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Dive :: Dive (v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.
Dive :: Dive (v. t.) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
Immerge :: Immerge (v. t.) To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse..
Implunge :: Implunge (v. t.) To plunge.
Poach :: Poach (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything..
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.
Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
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..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps..
Dive :: Dive (v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid..
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..
Blunger :: Blunger (n.) A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger..
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..
Ducker :: Ducker (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver..
Spear :: Spear (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod..
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