Movement

Synonyms for plunge

Synonyms for plunge: plummet, dip and immerse. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

3 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The 3 synonyms for plunge

Interchangeable with plunge in this sense

Audited under plunge's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one plunge carries in that sense.

plummetverb, in the sense "to fall or drop suddenly and steeply"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name plunge as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

dipdip is a verb in the sense "immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate"
immerseimmerse is a verb in the sense "thrust or throw into"

one of these comes from plunge's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineMovement

to fall or drop suddenly and steeply

The hikers watched the waterfall plunge into the gorge below.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

plummet

Same sentence, swapped: The hikers watched the waterfall plummet into the gorge below.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for plunge in the sentence quoted.

hover
drift
glide

Where plunge turns up in the game

plunge is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play plunge

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so plunge reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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