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Plunge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of thrusting into water or any penetrable substance.

2. Difficulty; strait; distress; a state of being surrounded or overwhelmed with difficulties.

3. People when put to a plunge cry out to heaven for help.

4. And wilt thou not reach out a friendly arm,

5. To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrow?

6. [In this sense, the word is now little used.]

Plunge [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pitch; to thrust or drive one's self into water or a fluid; to dive or to rush in. He plunged into the river.

2. The troops plunged into the stream.

3. His courser plung'd,

4. And threw him off; the waves whelm'd over him.

5. To fall or rush into distress or any state or circumstances in which the person or thing is enveloped, inclosed or overwhelmed; as, to plunge into a gulf; to plunge into debt or embarrassments; to plunge into war; a body of cavalry plunged into the midst of the enemy.

6. To pitch or throw one's self headlong.

Plunge [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To thrust into water or other fluid substance, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse in a fluid; to drive into flesh, mire or earth, etc.; as, to plunge the body in water; to plunge the arm into fire or flame; to plunge a dagger into the breast.

2. To thrust or drive into any state in which the thing is considered as enveloped or surrounded; as, to plunge one's self into difficulties or distress; to plunge a nation into war.

3. To baptize by immersion.

Plunge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.

3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.

4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

Plunge [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

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.

Plunge [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To baptize by immersion.

3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.

Plunged [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Thrust into a fluid or other penetrable substance; immersed; involved in straits.

Plunged [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Plunge

Plungeon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sea fowl.

Plunger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that plunges; a diver.

2. A cylinder used as a forcer in pumps.

Plunger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.

2. A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.

3. One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.

4. A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.

5. The firing pin of a breechloader.