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plunging
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plunging
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low |
| Synonyms: | decollete, deep-cut, low-cut, low-hanging, low-neck, low-necked, revealing, shocking |
| Concept: | Plunge. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-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.
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| Antonyms: | leap |
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| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moving down; lowering |
| Synonyms: | cave-in, coast, coming down, crash, declension, declination, decline, declivity, dip, downgrade, droop, drop, drop-off, fall, falling, grade, gradient, header, hill, inclination, incline, landslide, plummeting, plunge, plunging, precipitation, prolapse, sag, settlement, sinkage, sinking, slant, slide, slip, slope, swoop, tailspin, topple, tumble |
| Antonyms: | ascension, ascent, elevation, increase, rise, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | precipitous/precipitate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fast, sudden; impulsive; initial |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, breakneck, brief, frantic, gone off half-cocked, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurried, ill-advised, impatient, impetuous, indiscreet, jump the gun, madcap, off the hip, off the top of head, plunging, precipitant, quick, rapid, rash, reckless, refractory, rushing, subitaneous, swift, unanticipated, uncontrolled, unexpected, unforeseen, violent, willful, without warning |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, slow |
| Main Entry: | falling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dropping |
| Synonyms: | abating, collapsing, crumbling, declining, decreasing, descending, diminishing, ebbing, lowering, plunging, settling, sinking, sliding, slipping, subsiding, toppling, tottering, tumbling, weakening |
| Antonyms: | improving, increasing, rising |
| Main Entry: | lessening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decreasing |
| Synonyms: | abating, declining, depreciating, diminishing, dropping, dwindling, dying down, ebbing, ebbing, fading away, lightening, losing momentum, lowering, moderating, narrowing, plummeting, plunging, quieting, sagging, shrinking, shriveling up, sinking, slackening, slowing, slumping, softening, subsiding, waning, wasting, weakening, wearing down, wearing off |
| Main Entry: | tumbling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | falling |
| Synonyms: | plunging, rolling |
| Main Entry: | décolleté |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low-cut |
| Synonyms: | low-necked, plunging |
| Main Entry: | cascade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in a rush |
| Synonyms: | descend, disgorge, flood, gush, heave, overflow, pitch, plunge, pour, spew, spill, spit up, surge, throw up, tumble, vomit |
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