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plunged

adjective as in dipped

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In Tuesday trading alone, it plunged by more than 20 percent against the U.S. dollar.

Meanwhile, marriage rates among high-school graduates have declined, and those among high-school dropouts have plunged.

As the world from Ferguson to Syria plunged into chaos this summer, public opinion polls rolled in every week.

For Tolkien, the tale into which 1914 had plunged him never ended.

Caracas was plunged into darkness in the middle of a televised speech by President Nicolas Maduro.

He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.

The two men plunged into discussion, and Isabel, her eyes expressing a polite interest, studied the face of her cousin.

But before he had been in San Pasquale an hour, he was plunged into a perplexity and disappointment deeper than he had yet felt.

Aristide in a hideous red mask and with a bag of confetti under his arm, plunged with enthusiasm into the revelry.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to plunged, such as: soaked, bathed, coated, covered, doused, and drenched.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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