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Liknande ord
Definitioner
Substantiv
- the act of plunging or submerging
- a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
- (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
- (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
- (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
Verb
- (transitive) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.
Exempel
- to take the water with a plunge
- plunge in the sea
- to plunge the body into water
- to plunge a dagger into the breast; to plunge a nation into war
- he plunged into the river
- to plunge into debt; to plunge into controversy
- The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[...].
- Before asking the reader to plunge into the subject of linear models I shall, in accordance with a sensible custom, attempt in the few pages which follow to give some idea of what this subject is.
- some wild colt, which [...] flings and plunges
- Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.
- After decades of struggle to make a vaccine against HIV, these events plunged the efforts into disarray.
- Oil’s plunge could help send its price back up (wsj.com)
- Two people died when their car plunged down an embankment into a lake. (Independent)
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | plunged | Imperfekt | plunged |
| Presensparticip | plunging | Plural | plunges |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | plunges | Tredje person singular indicativ presens | plungeth |