Plunge
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 baptize by immersion.
To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
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.
To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
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.
Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
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Plunge Quotations
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.
George Galloway
I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
Dorothy Malone
Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
Jean Anouilh
If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.
James Cameron
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
Matt Groening
How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
Anna Held
Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.
Mark Kennedy
I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.
Dick York
Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.
Wild Bill Hickok
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
Peter Mandelson
He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.
Barbara Olson
What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.
Wavy Gravy
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Plunge Translations
plunge in Danish is dykke
plunge in Dutch is duiken
plunge in French is plonger
plunge in German is tauchen, eintauchen
plunge in Italian is mi tuffo
plunge in Portuguese is mergulho
plunge in Spanish is bucear, zambullida
plunge in Swedish is rusa, doppa
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