English Dictionary

plunge

IPA（発音記号）

/plʌndʒ/

動詞

他動詞 比喩的用法 廃用 自動詞 俗語

(transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. / (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

日本語の意味

（動詞）液体などに一気に差し込む、または突っ込む / （動詞・比喩的に）ある状態や行動に急激に投入する、陥れる / （動詞・比喩的に）急激に落ち込む、急降下する

To check the temperature, she decided to plunge the thermometer into the boiling pot.

温度を確かめるため、彼女は温度計を沸騰している鍋に差し入れることにした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.

to plunge the body into water

意味（2）

(figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

Jon isn’t lying when he tells her she will always be his queen, right before plunging a knife into her. He genuinely swore obedience, and sees himself as a traitor when he commits the deeds.

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.

he plunged into the river

意味（5）

(figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.

to plunge into debt; to plunge into controversy

意味（6）

(intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

[N]ature affects a looſe kinde of liberty, vvhich it cannot indure to have reſtrained: neither fares it othervviſe vvith it, then vvith ſome vvilde colt; which at the firſt taking up, flings and plunges, and vvill ſtand on no ground; but after it hath been ſomvvhile diſciplin'd at the Poſt, is grovvn tractable, and quietly ſubmits either to the ſaddle, or the collar: […]

意味（7）

(intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.

意味（8）

(intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).

Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.

意味（9）

(intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

plunges （ present singular third-person ）

plunging （ participle present ）

plunged （ participle past ）

plunged （ past ）