PLUNGE
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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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Plunge, v. i. 1. 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.
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Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea.
Dryden.
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To plunge into guilt of a murther.
Tillotson.
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2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
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Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.
Bp. Hall.
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3. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations. [Cant]
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Plunging fire (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position.
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Plunge, n. 1. 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.
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2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. [R.]
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She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her husband's murder or accuse her son.
Sir P. Sidney.
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And with thou not reach out a friendly arm,
To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows?
Addison.
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3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
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4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation. [Cant]
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Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself. -- Plunge battery, or plunging battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
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