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plunged |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plunge \Plunge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plunged}; p. pr & vb n. {Plunging}.] [OE. ploungen OF plongier F. plonger, fr (assumed) LL plumbicare fr L. plumbum lead. See {Plumb}.] 1. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as to plunge a nation into war. ``To plunge the boy in pleasing sleep.'' --Dryden. Bound and plunged him into a cell. --Tennyson. We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I. Watts. 2. To baptize by immersion. 3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.] Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. --Sir T. Browne.
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