Thesaurus / plunge
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We got our feet wet, literally, with Hike Maui and guide Gail Rice, who led us through gushing streambeds and ultimately to a plunge into a waterfall-fed pool.
A MAUI VACATION IN THREE ACTSALEX PULASKIFEBRUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThat’s why diamonds form after carbon takes a plunge inside Earth.
DIAMOND HOLDS UP AT PRESSURES MORE THAN FIVE TIMES THOSE IN EARTH’S COREEMILY CONOVERJANUARY 27, 2021SCIENCE NEWSThe rapid plunge has triggered all kinds of warnings about how low it could go.
BITCOIN BOMBS LOWER, TOUCHING THE DREADED $30,000 RANGEBERNHARD WARNERJANUARY 22, 2021FORTUNEWe already saw air pollution plunge in San Diego when stay-at-home orders were fresh and feared.
SAN DIEGO’S CLIMATE CHALLENGES WILL STILL BE HERE IN 2021 – AND BEYONDMACKENZIE ELMERJANUARY 1, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGOIndeed, after a record-fast plunge into a bear market in March, stocks have managed to completely recover and are currently trading around all-time highs, up 14% for the year at Tuesday’s close.
‘SANTA CLAUS’ RALLY COULD TAKE STOCKS HIGHER, EVEN AFTER AN ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ YEARANNE SRADERSDECEMBER 17, 2020FORTUNECompletely horizontal, it fell like a skydiver—a position designed to increase the spacecraft’s surface area—and air resistance—to slow the plunge.
SPACEX’S STARSHIP FLIES, BELLY FLOPS, AND BURSTS INTO FLAMESCHARLIE WOODDECEMBER 10, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCETerror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUWe met like hostile bulls, and wonder not that we should plunge at once upon each other's horns!
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERTo elucidate this it is necessary to plunge into the jungle of pure economic theory.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKBut the sailors plunge into the very fire itself; entering the houses, they strive to rescue the contents until the roofs fall in.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDWORDS RELATED TO PLUNGE
- adventures
- be catches short
- beards
- braves
- chances
- compromises
- confronts
- dares
- defies
- defies danger
- encounters
- endangers
- exposes to danger
- faces
- gambles
- goes out of one's depth
- hangs by a thread
- hazards
- imperils
- jeopardies
- jeopardizes
- leaps before looks
- leaves to lucks
- meets
- menaces
- perils
- plays with fire
- plunges
- puts in jeopardy
- runs the chance
- runs the risk
- skate on thin ice
- speculates
- tackles
- takes a flyer
- takes a header
- takes a plunge
- takes on
- takes the liberty
- ventures
- wagers
- bore
- brought down
- capsized
- cast down
- caved in
- couched
- declined
- demitted
- depressed
- descended
- dipped
- disappeared
- drilled
- drooped
- dropped
- drove
- drowned
- dug
- ebbed
- engulfed
- excavated
- fell
- floundered
- forced down
- foundered
- immersed
- lay
- let down
- lowered
- overturned
- overwhelmed
- plummeted
- plunged
- put down
- rammed
- ran
- regressed
- sagged
- scuttled
- set
- settled
- shipwrecked
- sloped
- slumped
- stabbed
- stooped
- stuck
- submerged
- subsided
- swamped
- thrust
- tip over
- touch bottom
- went down
- went to the bottom
- wrecked
- bore
- bring down
- capsize
- cast down
- cave in
- decline
- depress
- descend
- dig
- dip
- disappear
- drill
- drive
- droop
- drop
- drown
- ebb
- engulf
- excavate
- fall
- flounder
- force down
- founder
- go down
- go to the bottom
- immerse
- let down
- lower
- overturn
- overwhelm
- plummet
- plunge
- put down
- ram
- regress
- sag
- scuttle
- set
- settle
- shipwreck
- slope
- slump
- stab
- stick
- stoop
- submerge
- subside
- swamp
- thrust
- tip over
- touch bottom
- wreck
- beat one's brains
- brainstormed
- built castles in air
- called it
- called the turn
- cerebrated
- chewed over
- cogitated
- conjectured
- considered
- contemplated
- deliberated
- doped
- doped out
- excogitated
- figured
- figured out
- guessed
- guesstimated
- had a hunch
- hazarded a guess
- head trip
- hypothesized
- kicked around
- meditated
- mused
- pipe-dreamed
- psyched out
- ran it up flagpole
- read
- read between lines
- reasoned
- reflected
- reviewed
- ruminated
- schemed
- size up
- studied
- supposed
- surmised
- suspected
- weighed
- wondered
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.