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** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [en], from [en], (Modern French [fr]), from unattested [en]
frequentative [la], from [la]. Compare [en], [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse .
2. * [en]
3. [en] To cast , stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
4. * [1=en]
5. [en] To baptize by immersion.
6. [en] To dive , leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
7. [en] To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
8. * [chapter=8]
9. * [en]
10. [en] To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
11. * [chapter=LXXXVI]
12. [en] To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
13. [en] To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
14. * [edition=2nd]
15. [en] To overwhelm , overpower .
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Persian: [fa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[(figuratively, transitive) to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition
or action]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Ido: [io]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[(intransitive) to dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge
oneself]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Maori: [mi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[(figuratively, intransitive) to fall or rush headlong into some thing,
action, state or condition]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi] [in the air]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[(intransitive) to pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a
horse does]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] (-se)
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The act of plunging or submerging .
2. A dive , leap , rush , or pitch into (into water).
3. [en] A swimming pool .
4. [en] The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
5. [en] Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation .
6. [en] An immersion in difficulty , embarrassment , or distress ; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait ; difficulty .
***** Derived terms
- bus plunge
***** Translations
[The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into,
or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
[en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To remove a blockage by suction .
*** References
- [R:Century 1911]
- [code=50182028]
- [id=zcjgqhq]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]