Definition of "plunge"
- noun
The act of plunging or submerging.
A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.
- verb
To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse;.
To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
To baptize by immersion.
To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.
To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
To overwhelm, overpower.
- Sources