Verb

(plung)

(label) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.

To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

To baptize by immersion.

(label) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.

To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

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(label) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

* (Joseph Hall) (1574-1656)

some wild colt, which flings and plunges

To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.

To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).

* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)

Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.

To overwhelm, overpower.

Verb

(indulg)

: To yield to a temptation or desire.

He looked at the chocolate but didn't indulge .

I indulged in drinking on the weekend.

To satisfy the wishes or whims of.

Grandma indulges the kids with sweets.

I love to indulge myself with beautiful clothes.

* Atterbury

Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.

To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.

to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations

To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.

To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

* Jeremy Taylor

persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners

* Alexander Pope

Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light / Indulge , dread Chaos, and eternal Night!