Plunge
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) 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.
(2): ( v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
(3): ( v. t.) 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.
(4): ( v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
(5): ( v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
(6): ( n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
(7): ( v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
(8): ( n.) 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.
(9): ( n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
(10): ( n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To thrust into water or other fluid substance, or into any substance that is penetrable to immerse in a fluid to drive into flesh, mire or earth, &c. as, to plunge the body in water to plunge the arm into fire or flame to plunge a dagger into the breast. 2. To thrust or drive into any state in which the thing is considered as enveloped or surrounded as, to plunge one's self into difficulties or distress to plunge a nation into war. 3. To baptize by immersion.
Plunge, To pitch to thrust or drive one's self into water or a fluid to dive or to rush in. He plunged into the river.
The troops plunged into the stream.
His courser plung'd,
And threw him off the waves whelm'd over him.
1. To fall or rush into distress or any state or circumstances in which the person or thing is enveloped, inclosed or overwhelmed as, to plunge into a gulf to plunge into debt or embarrassments to plunge into war a body of cavalry plunged into the midst of the enemy. 2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong.
Plunge, n. The act of thrusting into water or any penetrable substance.
1. Difficulty strait distress a state of being surrounded or overwhelmed with difficulties.
People when put to a plunge, cry out to heaven for help.
And wilt thou not reach out a friendly arm,
To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrow?
In this sense, the word is now little used.
