plunge

Meanings

1. To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
2. To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
3. To baptize by immersion.
4. To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
5. To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
6. To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
7. To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
8. To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
9. To overwhelm, overpower.

1. The act of plunging or submerging.
2. A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
3. A swimming pool.
4. The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
5. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
6. An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.

1. To remove a blockage by suction.

Etymology

From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative *plumbicō (“to throw a leaded line”), from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce.