OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14786

plunge

/plʌnd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
inmersión
A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
A plunge into the sea
to take the water with a plunge
Phrases
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 14785

plunge

/plʌnd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sumergir • zabullir • zambullir
To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
"Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about."
to plunge the body into water
clavar • precipitar
To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
to plunge a dagger into the breast
to plunge a nation into war
sumergirse • zabullirse • zambullirse
To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
he plunged into the river
zambullirse
To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
to plunge into controversy
to plunge into debt