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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   plunge

   • IPA[plənj]

   美式

   • v.
     jump or dive quickly and energetically；fall suddenly and uncontrollably
   • n.
     an act of jumping or diving into water；a swift and drastic fall in value or amount

   • verb: plunge, 3rd person present: plunges, gerund or present participle: plunging, past tense: plunged, past participle: plunged

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. jump or dive quickly and energetically our daughters whooped as they plunged into the sea 同義詞 jump, dive, hurl oneself, throw oneself, fling oneself, ... 更多launch oneself, catapult oneself, cast oneself, pitch oneself
   • ▪ fall suddenly and uncontrollably a car swerved to avoid a bus and plunged into a ravine 同義詞 crash, plummet, pitch, drop, fall, ... 更多fall headlong, tumble, nosedive, take a nosedive, crash-dive, descend
   • ▪ embark impetuously on a speech or course of action overconfident researchers who plunge ahead
   • ▪ suffer a rapid decrease in value their fourth-quarter operating profit plunged 25% 同義詞 fall steeply/sharply, plummet, drop rapidly, go down, tumble, ... 更多sink, slump, fall off a cliff, informalcrash, nosedive, take a nosedive
   • ▪ (of a ship) pitch the ship plunged through the 20-foot seas 同義詞 lurch, pitch, roll, reel, toss around, ... 更多keel, list, wallow, labor, flounder, make heavy weather, pitchpole
   • 2. push or thrust quickly he plunged his hands into his pockets 同義詞 thrust, stick, ram, drive, jab, ... 更多stab, push, shove, force, sink
   • ▪ put (something) in liquid so as to immerse it completely cover the cucumbers with boiling water and then plunge them into iced water 同義詞 immerse, submerge, sink, dip, dunk, ... 更多douse, duck
   • ▪ suddenly bring into a specified condition or state for a moment the scene was illuminated, then it was plunged back into darkness 同義詞 throw, cast, pitch
   • ▪ sink (a plant or a pot containing a plant) in the ground pot up and plunge spring-flowering bulbs

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. an act of jumping or diving into water we went straight from the sauna to take a cold plunge 同義詞 jump, dive, nosedive, fall, pitch, ... 更多drop, plummet, descent, tumble, archaicplump
   • ▪ a swift and drastic fall in value or amount the bank declared a 76% plunge in its profits 同義詞 fall, drop, tumble, slump, informalnosedive, ... 更多crash

   片語

   • take the plunge