plunge

plunge is a 6-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 14 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To baptize by immersion.
3. transitive verb. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
4. intransitive verb. To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
5. intransitive verb. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
6. intransitive verb. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
7. noun. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
8. noun. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
9. noun. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
10. noun. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
11. noun. a brief swim in water

    Synonyms: dip

12. noun. a steep and rapid fall
13. verb. begin with vigor

    "He launched into a long diatribe"

    "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"

    Synonyms: launch

14. verb. devote (oneself) fully to

    "He immersed himself into his studies"

    Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, steep

15. verb. cause to be immersed

    "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text"

    Synonyms: immerse

16. verb. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

    "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"

    "dip the brush into the paint"

    Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse

17. verb. thrust or throw into

    "Immerse yourself in hot water"

    Synonyms: immerse

18. verb. dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity

    "She plunged at it eagerly"

19. verb. drop steeply

    "the stock market plunged"

    Synonyms: dive, plunk

20. verb. fall abruptly

    "It plunged to the bottom of the well"

    Synonyms: dump

Synonyms

dip, launch, absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, steep, douse, dunk, souse, dive, plunk, dump

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in plunge:

pungle

Common word forms

plunged, plunger, plunges, plunging

Words from these letters

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