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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