0 past simple and past participle of plunge --
1 to (cause someone or something to) move or fall suddenly and often a long way forward, down, or into something: --
2 to become lower in value or level very suddenly and quickly: --
It increased in 1999 and then with strong markets plunged to $6 billion in 2000.
The supercritical convective motion consisted of vertical jets of cool surface fluid which plunged downward into the interior of the fluid.
The culprits created conduit political banks for siphoning public resources to fund political activities, which plunged the country into hyperinflation.
With his hand gripping his cloth-patch in his pocket, he plunged through the hedge and into the estate grounds.
It could be argued, however, that without the wheat programmes introduced in 1938, prices would have plunged to even more depressing levels.
The reader, in consequence, is plunged into the history region by region, to alarming effect.
The inevitable collapse of the credit boom plunged the economy into recession.
Thus, when the stock market plunged, bank capital ratios were also severely affected.
