plunge
/plʌnd͡ʒ/ verbo C1En español: sumergir, zambullir, zabullir, precipitar
- To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. · to plunge the body into water
- To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action. · to plunge a dagger into the breast· He flicked a switch and the room was plunged into darkness.
- To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself. · he plunged into the river
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition. · to plunge into debt· to plunge into controversy
- To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
He/she/it plunges · Pasado plunged · Participio pasado plunged · Forma en -ing plunging
Formas del verbo
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- Participio pasado
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
With a snappy “Good-morning, Pitcher,” Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him.
“I hunt among the plowed fields tonight,” and he plunged downward through the bushes, to the stream at the bottom of the valley.
Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther--the yells and chatterings and scufflings, and Bagheera’s deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies.
Roll and plunge!
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