Plunged

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plunge \Plunge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plunged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Plunging}.] [OE. ploungen, OF. plongier, F. plonger, fr.
     (assumed) LL. plumbicare, fr. L. plumbum lead. See {Plumb}.]
     1. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is
        penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter
        quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body


        into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used
        figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. "To plunge
        the boy in pleasing sleep." --Dryden.
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              Bound and plunged him into a cell.    --Tennyson.
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              We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I.
                                                    Watts.
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     2. To baptize by immersion.
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     3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.]
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              Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.
                                                    --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.
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