plunge
verb
[ plʌn(d)ʒ ]
• jump or dive quickly and energetically.
• "our little daughters whooped as they plunged into the sea"
Similar:
jump,
dive,
hurl oneself,
throw oneself,
fling oneself,
launch oneself,
catapult oneself,
cast oneself,
pitch oneself,
• push or thrust quickly.
• "he plunged his hands into his pockets"
Similar:
thrust,
stick,
ram,
drive,
jab,
stab,
push,
shove,
force,
sink,
plunge
noun
• an act of jumping or diving into water.
• "fanatics went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge"
Similar:
jump,
dive,
nosedive,
fall,
pitch,
drop,
plummet,
descent,
tumble,
plump,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French plungier ‘thrust down’, based on Latin plumbum ‘lead, plummet’.
take the plunge
• commit oneself to a course of action about which one is nervous.
• "she wondered whether to enter for the race, but decided to take the plunge"
Similar:
commit oneself,
go for it,
throw caution to the wind(s),
give it one's all,
give it all one has,
go all out,
jump in at the deep end,
go for broke,
