amerikai:
brit:
1. The act of plunging or submerging
2. A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
A plunge into the sea
3. A swimming pool
4. The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
5. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
6. An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
1. To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
to plunge the body into water
2. 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
3. To baptize by immersion.
4. To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
he plunged into the river
5. To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
to plunge into debt; to plunge into controversy
6. To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
7. To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
8. To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
9. To overwhelm, overpower.