plunges
- 1Third-person singular present of plunge.
The diver plunges headfirst into the icy water below.
Every winter the temperature plunges far below freezing.
Note
One -s form serves both halves of the verb. Someone plunges something into a liquid, or something plunges by itself. Th Du Moncel's The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph (1879) shows the transitive use: charcoal brought to a white heat is plunged into a bath of mercury. In the transitive use the object comes straight after the verb. In the intransitive use, into names where the dive or fall ends: a diver plunges into water, and a country plunges into crisis.
She plunges the hot pan into cold water to stop the cooking.
The news plunges the whole town into mourning.
plunges 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 → plunges: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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