0 to (cause someone or something to) move or fall suddenly and often a long way forward, down, or into something: --
1 to become lower in value or level very suddenly and quickly: --
2 a sudden movement or fall forward, down, or into something: --
4 to move or fall suddenly forward, down, or into something: --
Still, the expansive strategies of the government carried on, with the benevolent support of international donors, plunging the country deeper into financial crisis.
Historians of the inquisition have always been very haphazard about their statistics, and the author plunges in after them.
The reader, in consequence, is plunged into the history region by region, to alarming effect.
Living inexorably plunges us into situations in which we make choices and become emotionally attached.
Sinistrally verging, steeply plunging folds deform many of the thrustrelated faults.
Folds of the fabric show steep plunges suggesting strike-slip reactivation.
The inevitable collapse of the credit boom plunged the economy into recession.
From chapter 4 onwards, the author plunges into the analysis proper of the principal characters of the poem.
