Definitions for plunges

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plunges plunge

Spelling: [pluhnj]

IPA: /plʌndʒ/

Plunges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in plunges (eglnpsu).

Definitions for plunges

noun

1. act of plunging.
2. a leap or dive, as into water.
3. a headlong or impetuous rush or dash:
4. a sudden, violent pitching movement.
5. a place for plunging or diving, as a swimming pool.
6. Geology. pitch1 (def 45).

Idioms

1. take the plunge, to enter with sudden decision upon an unfamiliar course of action, as after hesitation or deliberation:

verb (used with object)

1. to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge:
2. to bring suddenly or forcibly into some condition, situation, etc.:
3. Horticulture. to place (a potted plant) up to its rim in soil or in certain other materials, as sand or moss.
4. Surveying. to transit (the telescope of a transit or theodolite).

verb (used without object)

1. to cast oneself, or fall as if cast, into water, a hole, etc.
2. to rush or dash with headlong haste:
3. to bet or speculate recklessly:
4. to throw oneself impetuously or abruptly into some condition, situation, matter, etc.:
5. to descend abruptly or precipitously, as a cliff, road, etc.
6. to pitch violently forward, as a horse, ship, etc.

Origin of plunges

1325-75; Middle English Middle French plung(i)er ≪ Vulgar Latin *plumbicāre to heave the lead. See plumb

Examples for plunges

Now, she quickened her pace, anxious for the plunge that should set the term to sorrow.

"I knew he'd plunge," he said, taking the chair proffered him, near Shepler's desk.

Stewart took the plunge in response to Matt Lauer's televised Today Show challenge.

And nobody expected oil prices to plunge so quickly, either.

She lay looking at me like a deer that I had shot, waiting for me to plunge in the knife.

So, with good ideas in the air, we plunge into one of the knottier sections of the story.

The vote on Sunday could take Ukraine toward a modern functioning democracy or plunge it back into a cesspool of corruption.

Cocker, for his part, worked briefly as an apprentice gasfitter but decided to take the plunge into the world of commercial music.

And if you have no weapon take my knife and plunge it into this sad heart, and let me die!

We might dine early, and plunge into the desert later, when the moon was high.