Pummel vs Plunge - What's the difference?
pummel | plunge |
To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.
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the act of plunging or submerging
a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
(figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
(slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
(obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
(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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, 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)
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)
To overwhelm, overpower.
As verbs the difference between pummel and plunge
is that pummel is to hit or strike heavily and repeatedly while plunge is to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.As a noun plunge is
the act of plunging or submerging.pummel
English
Verb
- Rain pummeled the roof.
- The boxer pummeled his opponent.
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plunge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to take the water with a plunge
- plunge in the sea
Verb
(plung)- some wild colt, which flings and plunges
- Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.