Meaning of Plunging | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid.
2. A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider.

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Examples

“Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […].”

“Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment.”

“It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.”

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