keel

Main Entry:	keel [keel] Show IPA/kil/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	fall
Synonyms:	black out, capsize, collapse, drop, faint, founder, go down, overturn, pass out, pitch, plunge, slump, swoon, topple, tumble, upset

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Main Entry:	plunge
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	dive or fall fast
Synonyms:	belly-flop, career, cast, charge, dash, descend, dip, drive, drop, duck, fling, go down, go the limit, go whole hog, hurtle, immerge, immerse, jump, keel, lunge, lurch, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunk, propel, rush, shoot the works, sink, sound, submerge, submerse, swoop, take a flyer, take a header, tear, throw, throw oneself, thrust, topple, tumble
Antonyms:	ascend, increase, rise

Main Entry:	tumble
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	fall or make fall awkwardly
Synonyms:	bowl down, bring down, descend, dip, disarrange, disarray, disorder, disturb, do a pratfall, down, drop, fall headlong, flatten, floor, flop, go belly up, go down, hit the dirt, jumble, keel, keel over, knock down, knock over, level, lose footing, lose it, mess up, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunge, roll, sag, skid, slip, slump, spill, stumble, take a header, tip over, topple, toss, trip, unsettle, upset

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Concept:	Plunge.
Category:	4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:	-nouns plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking; diver. -verbs plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge; bathe (water)., submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom., get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.
Antonyms:	leap
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