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Word Meanings - PLUNGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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. Bound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts. 2. To baptize by immersion. 3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. Sir T. Browne.

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  • ARIDITY
    1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
  • VENTILATE
    brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
  • STEEP
    Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
  • DROWN
    To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
  • DOUSE
    To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail. (more info) 1. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet.
  • STEEPLE
    A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
  • EXSICCATE
    To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
  • STEEPLY
    In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
  • STEEP-DOWN
    Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
  • OVERWHELM
    1. To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
  • INUNDATE
    pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. 1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. 2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country
  • IMMERSED
    Growing wholly under water. Gray. (more info) 1. Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid. 2. Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
  • SUBMERGENCE
    The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.
  • IMMERSE
    Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.
  • OVERWHELMING
    Overpowering; irresistible. -- O`ver*whelm"ing*ly, adv.
  • PLUNGE
    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
  • STEEPLE-CROWNED
    1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.
  • STEEPEN
    To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.
  • DELUGE
    = dis- + luere, equiv. to lavare to wash. See Lave, and cf. 1. A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah . 2. Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or
  • STEEPER
    A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
  • EMPLUNGE
    To plunge; to implunge. Spenser.
  • EMACERATE
    To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. Bullokar.

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