Usually means: Dropping or falling steeply downward.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. plunging: Merriam-Webster
  2. plunging: Collins English Dictionary
  3. plunging: Vocabulary.com
  4. Plunging, plunging: Wordnik
  5. plunging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. plunging: Wiktionary
  7. Plunging, plunging: Dictionary.com
  8. plunging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Plunging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Plunging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. plunging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. plunging: FreeDictionary.org
  13. plunging: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. plunging: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plunging: Encyclopedia

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  1. plunging: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plunging: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See plunge as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  That descends steeply.
adjective:  Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy.
adjective:  (of the neckline of a dress) Very low-cut.
noun:  An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid.
noun:  A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider.

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