Submerge vs Plunge - What's the difference?
submerge | plunge |
To sink out of sight.
To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
To be engulfed in or with something.
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.
*
, 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:
*
(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.
In intransitive terms the difference between submerge and plunge
is that submerge is to sink out of sight while plunge is to pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.In transitive terms the difference between submerge and plunge
is that submerge is to be engulfed in or with something 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.submerge
English
Verb
(submerg)- The submarine submerged in the water.
- In films many people are murdered by being submerged in a swimming pool.
- Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow.
Synonyms
* immerse (2) * submerseDerived terms
* submergence * submersion ----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.