Plunging
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈplʌn.d͡ʒɪŋ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Plunging is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of plunge.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of plunge.
More Meanings
- That descends steeply.
- Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy.
- (of the neckline of a dress) Very low-cut.
- An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid.
- A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider.
Example Sentences
It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.
Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […].
Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment.
Word Forms
- plungings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dunk, douse, immerse, dive, dump, launch.
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