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- English Word Plundering Definition of Plunder
- English Word Plunge Definition 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.
- English Word Plunge Definition To baptize by immersion.
- English Word Plunge Definition To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
- English Word Plunge Definition To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
- English Word Plunge Definition To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- English Word Plunge Definition To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
- English Word Plunge Definition The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
- English Word Plunge Definition Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
- English Word Plunge Definition The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- English Word Plunge Definition Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- English Word Plunged Definition of Plunge
- English Word Plunger Definition One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
- English Word Plunger Definition A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- English Word Plunger Definition One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
- English Word Plunger Definition A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
- English Word Plunger Definition The firing pin of a breechloader.
- English Word Plunging Definition of Plunge
- English Word Plunket Definition A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.
- English Word Pluperfect Definition More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.