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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

plunge into en · VERB

Meanings

  1. A partial synonym of plunge in.
    • At 0508 on July 18 1981, the last freight train plunged into the 3-mile 66-yard Woodhead Tunnel at Dunford Bridge. [...] As it emerged back into the daylight at Woodhead at 0514, heading west, that was it for this famous railway line. 2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 38:
    • Before asking the reader to plunge into the subject of linear models I shall, in accordance with a sensible custom, attempt in the few pages which follow to give some idea of what this subject is. 1989, David Gale, The Theory of Linear Economic Models:

Forms

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plunged into Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
plunged into Tense=Past lexicographic
plunging into Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
plunges into Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic