plunge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of plunging or submerging.
  2. A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
    — to take the water with a plunge
  3. A swimming pool. dated
  4. The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse. figuratively
  5. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation. slang
  6. An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. transitive
    — to plunge the body into water
  2. To remove a blockage by suction. transitive
    — to plunge a toilet
  3. To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action. figuratively,transitive
    — to plunge a dagger into the breast
  4. To baptize by immersion. obsolete,transitive
  5. To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself. intransitive
    — he plunged into the river
  6. To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition. figuratively,intransitive
    — to plunge into debt
  7. To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. intransitive
    — [N]ature affects a looſe kinde of liberty, vvhich it cannot indure to have reſtrained: neither fares it othervviſe vvith it, then vvith ſome vvilde colt; which at the firſt taking up, flings and plunges, and vvill ſtand on no ground; but after it hath been ſomvvhile diſciplin'd at the Poſt, is grovvn tractable, and quietly ſubmits either to the ſaddle, or the collar: […]
  8. To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling. intransitive,slang
  9. To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle). intransitive,obsolete
    — Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.
  10. To overwhelm, overpower. intransitive,obsolete

词形变化

plunges present,singular,third-person plunging participle,present plunged participle,past plunged past plunges plural plunges present,singular,third-person plunging participle,present plunged participle,past plunged past

词汇关系

衍生词
implunge plungeable plunge bath plunge bra plunge in plunge into plunge pool plunge waterfall polar bear plunge replunge take the plunge unplunge unplunged bus plunge

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Back-formation from plunger.
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