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plunge
/plʌndʒ/
noun
The act of plunging or submerging
A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
"A plunge into the sea"
A swimming pool
verb
To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
"to plunge the body into water"
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"
To baptize by immersion.
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