English-Finnish translations for plunge

• sukellus
• syöstä
  Se saattaa syöstä ihmiset entistä syvemmälle velkaloukkuun. That could plunge people even further into debt.
  Lisäksi, jos jokin EU:n ulkopuolinen valtio tulevaisuudessa päättää keskeyttää toimitukset ja syöstä Euroopan pimeyteen, kuinka me vastaamme? Furthermore, if, in the future, a non-EU country decides to cut the supply and plunge Europe into darkness, how will we respond?
  Maan presidentin viimeaikaiset lausunnot uhkaavat syöstä Iranin, joka on todellakin suuri maa, takaisin eristäytymisen aikaan ja viedä siltä joka tapauksessa johtavan aseman alueellaan. The latest statements by its President threaten to plunge Iran, which is indeed a big country, back into isolation and, in any case, prevent it from playing a leading role in its region.

Definition of plunge

• To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse
• To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action
• To baptize by immersion
• To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition
• To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does
• To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling
• To overwhelm, overpower
• the act of plunging or submerging
• A swimming pool
• heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation

Examples

• to plunge the body into water
• to plunge a dagger into the breast;   to plunge a nation into war
• he plunged into the river
• to plunge into debt;   to plunge into controversy
• to take the water with a plunge
• A plunge into the sea

Related words

• plunger
• replunge
• plunge pool
• take the plunge
• polar bear plunge
• coffee plunger
• be plunged in at the deep end