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plunging

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plunge \Plunge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plunged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plunging.] [OE. ploungen, OF. plongier, F. plonger, fr.
(assumed) LL. plumbicare, fr. L. plumbum lead. See Plumb.]
1. 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. "To plunge
the boy in pleasing sleep." --Dryden.
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Bound and plunged him into a cell. --Tennyson.
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We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I.
Watts.
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2. To baptize by immersion.
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3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.]
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Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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Moby Dictionary
Brownian movement , abrupt , abysmal , abyssal , advance ,
angular motion , ascending , ascent , axial , axial motion , back ,
back-flowing , backflowing , backing , backward , backward motion ,
bluff , bold , bottomless , breakneck , career , cavernous , climbing ,
collapsing , course , current , deciduous , declining , declivitous ,
decurrent , deep as hell , deep-sea diving , descendant , descending ,
descent , diving , down , down-reaching , down-trending , downcoming ,
downfalling , downgoing , downhill , downsinking , downward ,
downward motion , drift , driftage , drifting , drooping , dropping ,
ebbing , falling , fancy diving , fathomless , flight , flow , flowing ,
fluent , flux , flying , forward motion , gaping , going , gyrational ,
gyratory , headlong , high diving , mounting , oblique motion ,
on the descendant , on the downgrade , ongoing , onrush ,
orthodiagonal , orthogonal , passage , passing , pearl diving ,
perpendicular , plumb , plumbless , plummeting , precipitous , progress ,
progressive , radial motion , random motion , rapid , reflowing ,
refluence , refluent , reflux , regression , regressive , retrogression ,
retrogressive , right-angle , right-angled , right-angular , rising ,
rotary , rotational , rotatory , run , running , rush , rushing , sagging ,
set , setting , sharp , sheer , sideward , sideward motion , sinking ,
skin diving , sky diving , soaring , soundless , steep , sternway ,
straight-up , straight-up-and-down , stream , streaming , submerging ,
subsiding , tottering , traject , trajet , trend , tumbledown ,
unfathomable , unfathomed , unsounded , up-and-down , up-trending ,
upward , upward motion , vertical , without bottom , yawning