What is "plummetted"

Usage examples of "plummetted".

His stomach gushed up, his throat expanded in the sudden emptiness, and it was so long, so endless before he slammed past the first branches, plummetted through the clutching boughs, cracked to a stop against a stout limb.

And then it plummetted gracefully from the tree, hit a branch, toppled off, disappeared in the dark.

The weighted rope plummetted straight down from the point of the overhang, and padded though the box was on every side with lashed rucksacks and sleeping-bags it still crashed terrifyingly against the cliff on the inner arc of every wind-driven swing of the pendulum.

He had not been thought fit to lead the way with Mallory--and it was he, the sailor of the party, who had made such a botch of tying that last knot, had lost all the food and the fuel that had plummetted into the sea a bare ten feet from where he had stood on the ledge .

He had not walked long when the darkness of the mountain plummetted down at him, the torches growing small, going blue, and cold, and then black.