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plummeted

VERB

fall hard and fast

Synonyms

STRONGEST

collapse crash decline decrease descend dip dive drop drop down fall nose-dive plunge sink skid tumble

STRONG

downturn dump precipitate stoop swoop

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ascend go up grow increase raise rise

WEAK

shoot up

Example Sentences

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Turkey's stock market plummeted 6% late on Thursday before recovering some of that ground on Friday morning.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Instead of cost cutting, USPS’s operating costs increased by nearly 10% between 2021 and 2025, and productivity plummeted.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Smoking rates plummeted from their mid-20th-century peaks because “whole groups of people were quitting in concert.”

From Slate • May 15, 2026

Shares have plummeted 71% from an all-time closing high of $28.87 on June 8, 2021.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Now that the war was over, the demand for molasses for making munitions had plummeted.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler