English-Spanish translations for plunge

• inmersión
• sumergir
  Las tensiones que se transforman en conflictos abiertos amenazan con eclipsar la independencia del Sudán Meridional y sumergir de nuevo a la región en el caos. Tensions that are turning into open conflict are threatening to overshadow South Sudan's independence and plunge the region once again into chaos.
• zambullir

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