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plunges

verb

Meaning

  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. 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.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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