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Webster 1828 Edition
Plunging
PLUNG'ING
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Definition 2024
plunging
plunging
English
Verb
plunging
- present participle of plunge
Derived terms
Noun
plunging (plural plungings)
- An occurrence in which something or someone plunges
- 1881, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Prince and The Pauper, Complete:
- Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment.