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Plunging

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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plunging

n. An occurrence in which something or someone plunges vb. (present participle of plunge English)

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Usage examples of "plunging".

Mistress Anan studied him with her arms folded beneath her breasts in a way that increased the generous cleavage displayed by her plunging neckline.

And while in ballooning there is no wind, since the balloon is a part of the wind, flying is a wild perpetual creation of and plunging into wind.

Pope, in the center of the picture, who is talking with the bonnetless Doge--talking tranquilly, too, although within twelve feet of them a man is beating a drum, and not far from the drummer two persons are blowing horns, and many horsemen are plunging and rioting about--indeed, twenty-two feet of this great work is all a deep and happy holiday serenity and Sunday-school procession, and then we come suddenly upon eleven and one-half feet of turmoil and racket and insubordination.

Already Britt is plunging down the hill, accelerating faster and faster with a roar down toward the left turn to Bottom Straight.

Like a skilled dancer, Brok rocked himself in and out of her pussy, never leaving, never plunging full ahead.

I felt a plunging sensation like you get just before screaming downward toward terra firma on a roller coaster.

Can we by plunging the subject in hypnotical sleep, feel sure of what he may affirm?

The chopper kept plunging for a few desperate seconds as Manso worked the controls, cursing and praying at the same time.

And as the Confederacy became more and more pressed, and when powerful hostile armies were plunging through her bosom, the Federal prisoners of Andersonville suffered incredibly during the hasty removal to Millen, Savannah, Charleston, and other points, supposed at the time to be secure from the enemy.

Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

The inevitable, plunging fall into bloodshed came presaged by refigured horror, as the intertwined ribbons of conscious life shivered to the blast of a war horn, mustering men to take arms.

The cavalier reached for a pistolet and would have reined in, but the dying horse was now plunging forward, bit in his teeth, breath whistling, hooves thundering down the declivity and re-echoing from the trees.

The savage plunging ripped between her thighs like a pounding piston of pleasure.

Then, plunging on, Quath was suddenly in the midst of the Interloper vision, as quoted in their texts.

When she landed across the twigs of his broom, he reached behind to keep her in place, realizing too late that abandoning Sirius meant that his godfather was now plunging to earth under the weight of the Death Eater.