plunge into

verb

A partial synonym of plunge in.

Meanings

verbplunge into (third-person singular simple present plunges into, present participle plunging into, simple past and past participle plunged into)

present singular third person plunges into · participle present plunging into · participle past plunged into · past plunged into

  1. A partial synonym of plunge in.

    Before asking the reader to plunge into the subject of linear models I shall, in accordance with a sensible custom, attempt in the few pages which follow to give some idea of what this subject is.

    1989, David Gale, The Theory of Linear Economic Models
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    At 0508 on July 18 1981, the last freight train plunged into the 3-mile 66-yard Woodhead Tunnel at Dunford Bridge. [...] As it emerged back into the daylight at Woodhead at 0514, heading west, that was it for this famous railway line.

    2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 38

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