plunged
SayPLUNJD/plʌnd͡ʒd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of plunge.
The car plunged off the bridge into the river below.
Stock prices plunged sharply during the financial crisis.
Note
One regular -ed form serves as both the simple past and the past participle. Which reading you have depends on whether plunge is transitive or intransitive. Transitive uses allow the passive (the room was plunged into darkness), where something is done to the subject. Intransitive uses take have and describe the subject's own movement (prices have plunged; the horse plunged forward).
plunged is a form of plunge
plunge, verb: To go into water or another liquid suddenly, by diving, jumping, or rushing in, so that one is submerged. Full entry
- Spelling
- plunge → plunged: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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