Bound and plunged him into a cell. --Tennyson.
We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I.
Watts.
3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.]
Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.
--Sir T.
Browne.
Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea. --Dryden.
To plunge into guilt of a murther. --Tillotson.
2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently
forward, as a horse does.
Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.
--Bp. Hall.
3. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or
other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in
hazardous speculations. [Cant]
{Plunging fire} (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an
elevated position.
2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being
submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. [R.]
She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her
husband's murder or accuse her son. --Sir P.
Sidney.
And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, To raise
me from amidst this plunge of sorrows? --Addison.
3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or
violently forward, like an unruly horse.
4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous
speculation. [Cant]
{Plunge bath}, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath
in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
{Plunge}, or {plunging}, {battery} (Elec.), a voltaic battery
so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or
withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.