English-Portuguese translations for plunge

• atirar(-se
• mergulhar
  Por conseguinte, está na altura de mergulhar de cabeça e tomar uma decisão final. It is therefore time to take the plunge and make a final decision.
  Portanto, porque é que havemos de transformar injustamente a actual Comissão em bode expiatório e mergulhar a União numa crise política? So why should we unjustly make a scapegoat of the present Commission and plunge the Union into a political crisis?
  E se, amanhã, um Estado exterior decidir cortar o abastecimento e mergulhar a Europa no escuro, qual será a nossa resposta? Furthermore, if, in the future, a non-EU country decides to cut the supply and plunge Europe into darkness, how will we respond?

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