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Plunge vs. Submerse — What's the Difference?

Plunge vs. Submerse — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Plunge and Submerse

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Plunge

To dive, jump, or throw oneself
We plunged into the lake.

Submerse

To submerge.

Plunge

To fall rapidly
The car went off the road and plunged into the gully.

Submerse

To submerge.

Plunge

To devote oneself to or undertake an activity earnestly or wholeheartedly
I plunged into my studies. She plunged ahead with her plan.
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Submerse

(botany) Growing entirely under water.

Plunge

To enter or move headlong through something
The hunting dogs plunged into the forest.

Submerse

Submersed.

Plunge

To slope steeply downward
A cliff that plunges to the sea.

Submerse

Sink below the surface; go under or as if under water

Plunge

To move forward and downward violently
The ship plunged through rough seas.

Submerse

Put under water;
Submerge your head completely

Plunge

To become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically
Stock prices plunged during the banking crisis.

Plunge

To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place
Plunged the eggs into the hot water.
Plunged the fork into the potato.

Plunge

To cast suddenly, violently, or deeply into a given state or situation
"The street was plunged in cool shadow" (Richard Wright).

Plunge

To use a plunger to try to unblock (a drain, for example).

Plunge

The act or an instance of plunging
A plunge off the dock.

Plunge

A swim; a dip.

Plunge

A sudden or dramatic decline
A plunge in prices.

Plunge

(transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
To plunge the body into water

Plunge

To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
To plunge a dagger into the breast
To plunge a nation into war
The city was plunged into darkness

Plunge

To baptize by immersion.

Plunge

(intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
He plunged into the river

Plunge

To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
To plunge into debt
To plunge into controversy
Profits plunge 90%

Plunge

(intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

Plunge

To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.

Plunge

To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).

Plunge

To overwhelm, overpower.

Plunge

(transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
To plunge a toilet

Plunge

The act of plunging or submerging.

Plunge

A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
To take the water with a plunge
A plunge into the sea

Plunge

(dated) A swimming pool.

Plunge

(figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.

Plunge

(slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

Plunge

(obsolete) An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.

Plunge

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.
Bound and plunged him into a cell.
We shall be plunged into perpetual errors.

Plunge

To baptize by immersion.

Plunge

To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.

Plunge

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.
Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea.
To plunge into guilt of a murther.

Plunge

To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.

Plunge

To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.

Plunge

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.

Plunge

Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her husband's murder or accuse her son.
And with thou not reach out a friendly arm,To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows?

Plunge

The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.

Plunge

Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.

Plunge

A brief swim in water

Plunge

A steep and rapid fall

Plunge

Thrust or throw into;
Immerse yourself in hot water

Plunge

Drop steeply;
The stock market plunged

Plunge

Dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity;
She plunged at it eagerly

Plunge

Begin with vigor;
He launched into a long diatribe
She plunged into a dangerous adventure

Plunge

Cause to be immersed;
The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text

Plunge

Fall abruptly;
It plunged to the bottom of the well

Plunge

Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate;
Dip the garment into the cleaning solution
Dip the brush into the paint

Plunge

Engross (oneself) fully;
He immersed himself into his studies

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