(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.
(verb) hurl missiles repeatedly at; “two boys pelted him with rotten apples”
(verb) hurl (something) at someone or something; “she spotted four boys pelting stones at ducks”
(of rain, hail, or snow) fall quickly and very heavily; “the rain was pelting down”
(informal) run somewhere very quickly; “I pelted across the road”
(Phrases) full pelt — as fast as possible; “I ran downstairs at full pelt”
(noun) the skin of an animal with the fur, wool, or hair still on it; “traders brought reindeer pelts”
(Phrases) in one’s pelt — naked.“they came across Henn, standing in his pelt by the river”
Pelt (पेलत / पलट / पेल्ट) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)
झपटना, झोंकना, डालना, पीटना, फेंकना, मारना, फेंक कर मारना, ताबड़तोड़ भागना, मूसलाधार होना, तेज़ी से आगे बढ़ना, खाल, चमड़ा, चोट, मार, कच्चा चमड़ा, ताबड़तोड़ भागना, मूसलाधार होना, कूड़ा-कर्कट, फेंकने का कार्य
Pelt origin
Middle English: either from obsolete pellet ‘skin’, from an Old French diminutive of pel ‘skin’, from Latin pellis ‘skin’, or a back-formation from peltry.
Pelt in a sentence (word usage in recent Hindu newspaper)
Miscreants pelt stones on new Train 18 during trial run.
Hailstorm, rain pelt down on rabi crops.
New Zealand canoe hire shop housed Tassie tiger pelt worth $250000.
Storms pelt Shaver Lake with snow and rain mix.
An animal’s pelt can be affected by a number of environmental factors.
(noun) the state of being important, famous, or noticeable; “she came to prominence as an artist in the 1960s”
(noun) the fact or state of projecting from something; “radiographs showed enlargement of the right heart with prominence of the pulmonary outflow tract”
(noun) a thing that projects from something, such as a projecting feature of the landscape or a protuberance on a part of the body; “the steep rocky prominence resembled a snow-capped mountain”
(astronomy) a stream of incandescent gas projecting above the sun’s chromosphere.
Prominence (प्रोमिनेंस / प्रोमीनेंस / प्रॉमिनेंस) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)
(verb) (of a state or feeling) decrease in vigour or extent; become weaker; “confidence in the dollar waned”
(verb) (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size; “the moon is waning”
(Phrase) on the wane — becoming weaker or less extensive;“the epidemic was on the wane”
(noun) the amount by which a plank or log is bevelled or falls short of a squared shape; “I cut the log into slabs without removing the outside wane”
Wane (वेन / वैन) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)
उतरना, घटना, ढलना, कम होना, क्षीण होना, अधोगति, अवनति, कमी, क्षय, घटाव, पतन, ह्रास, चंद घटना
Wane Origin
Old English wanian ‘lessen’, of Germanic origin; related to Latin vanus ‘vain’.
Wane in a sentence (word usage in recent Hindu newspaper)
Manufacturing activity picks up but optimism continues to wane.
US Report Says Anti-Americanism On the Wane in Greece.
India’s craze for gold on the wane as yellow metal gets dearer.
Atheism may be on the wane in Britain.
Davos: Citigroup CEO admits London focus will wane after Brexit.
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