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present participle and gerund of plunge examples
not comparable
That descends steeply. examples
Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy. examples
(of the neckline of a dress) Very low-cut. examples
plural plungings
An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid. examples
A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider. quotations examples
Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […] .
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or The Whale
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.
1881, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Prince and The Pauper, Complete