Plunge

• (verb) jump or dive quickly and energetically; “Joy stripped her clothes off and plunged into the sea”
• (verb) fall suddenly and uncontrollably; “the aircraft plunged to the ground”
• (verb) embark impetuously on a speech or course of action; “he came to a decision, and plunged on before he had time to reconsider it”
• (verb) suffer a rapid decrease in value; “shares in the company plunged 18p on news that profits had fallen”
• (verb) (of a ship) pitch; “the ship plunged through the 20-foot seas”
• (verb) (of a horse) rear violently; “the frightened horse plunged and bolted”
• (verb) push or thrust quickly; “he plunged his hands into his pockets”
• (verb) quickly immerse in liquid; “plunge the pears into a bowl of cold water”
• (verb) suddenly bring into a specified condition or state; “the room was plunged into darkness”
• (verb) sink (a pot containing a plant) in the ground; “pot up and plunge spring-flowering bulbs”
• (noun) an act of jumping or diving into water; “a plunge into the deep end of the pool”
• (noun) a swift and drastic fall in value or amount; “the central bank declared a 76% plunge in its profits”

Phrases:

• take the plunge — commit oneself to a course of action about which one is nervous;“she wondered whether to enter for the race, but decided to take the plunge”

Plunge (प्लन्ज) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)

• गोता, छलांग, डुबकी, प्रवेश, तैरने का तालाब, कूद, डुबाना, डूबना, प्रवेश करना, गोता लगाना, किसी काम में मग्न हो जाना, झटके से डालना, उछाल आना, ग़ोता लगाना, कूदना

Plunge Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French plungier ‘thrust down’, based on Latin plumbum ‘lead, plummet’.

Plunge in a sentence (word usage in recent Hindu newspaper)

• More than 250 people took the plunge at Lake Fenton.
• Political donations plunge to $16.7m – down from average $25ma year.
• Temperatures to plunge to -5.
• Big Oil Companies Finished 2018 Strong Despite Plunge in Oil Prices.
• In Spain, international adoptions plunge while surrogacy grows.

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of plunge

• sound like “put lung in water”

Plunge pronunciation