plunge

Significat (anglès)

1. To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
2. To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
3. (obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
4. To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
5. To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
6. To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
7. (slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
8. (obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
9. (obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

dive

dip

dip to immerse

dive into water

saddled with debt

negative asset

against us

jump into water

scamper away

tum

whisk

zoom

dive into

plunge into

shower down

stick into

swoop down

incur debts

drag into

hit at

dart away

drop down

Freqüència

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/plʌnd͡ʒ/

From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative *plumbicō (“to throw a leaded line”), from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce.

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