Usually means: Rapid, steep descent or fall.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. plunge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plunge: Merriam-Webster
  3. plunge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plunge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plunge: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plunge: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plunge, plunge: Wordnik
  8. plunge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plunge: Wiktionary
  10. plunge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plunge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plunge: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Plunge, plunge: Dictionary.com
  14. plunge (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. plunge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Plunge (album), Plunge, The Plunge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Plunge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. plunge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. plunge: Rhymezone
  20. plunge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. plunge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. plunge: FreeDictionary.org
  23. plunge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. plunge: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. plunge: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plunge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plunge: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plunge, plunge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Plunge, the plunge: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See plunged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
verb:  (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
verb:  (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
verb:  (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.
noun:  The act of plunging or submerging.
noun:  A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
noun:  (dated) A swimming pool.
noun:  (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
noun:  (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
noun:  (obsolete) An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.
verb:  (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.

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