0 to supply a building or a device with water pipes, or to connect a building or a device to a water pipe:
We've discovered that our house isn't plumbed properly.
Have you plumbed the dishwasher in yet?
1 to measure how deep something is, especially water
2 exactly:
3 completely:
4 exactly straight, usually describing a vertical surface or line:
We have been watching with growing disbelief the violence and reciprocal atrocities that have plumbed new depths of horror in recent days.
They really plumbed the depths on that one.
The debate about asylum seekers has plumbed appalling depths in recent times.
The experiences that led up to the decision to run away from home will constitute depths which will not easily be plumbed.
I did not realize then what further depths there were to be plumbed.
Every time it plumbs new depths we are told that it can plunge no deeper and the regime must surely soon collapse.
To my knowledge, no qualified surveyor has ever plumbed the depth of knowledge of rent officers, many of them being not qualified.
The latter can be plumbed into the electricity mains and on warm, sunny days put electricity back into the grid system so that everyone benefits.
