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I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
Kristen Bell

Meaning of "plunging" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLUNGING

plunging  [ˈplʌndʒɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLUNGING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Plunging is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PLUNGING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of plunging in the English dictionary

The definition of plunging in the dictionary is A plunging neckline or dress shows a lot of a woman's chest.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLUNGING


aging
ˈeɪdʒɪŋ
avenging
əˈvendʒɪŋ
Beijing
ˈbeɪˈdʒɪŋ
challenging
ˈtʃælɪndʒɪŋ
changing
ˈtʃeɪndʒɪŋ
cringing
ˈkrɪndʒɪŋ
emerging
ɪˈmɜːdʒɪŋ
engaging
ɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ
flanging
ˈflændʒɪŋ
imaging
ˈɪmɪdʒɪŋ
lodging
ˈlɒdʒɪŋ
managing
ˈmænɪdʒɪŋ
messaging
ˈmɛsɪdʒɪŋ
packaging
ˈpækɪdʒɪŋ
revenging
rɪˈvɛndʒɪŋ
swingeing
ˈswɪndʒɪŋ
unchallenging
ʌnˈtʃælɪndʒɪŋ
unchanging
ʌnˈtʃeɪndʒɪŋ
whingeing
ˈwɪndʒɪŋ
wide-ranging
ˌwaɪdˈreɪndʒɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLUNGING

plumy
plunder
plunderable
plunderage
plunderer
plunderous
plunge
plunge bath
plunge pool
plunger
plunk
plunker
Plunket
Plunket baby
Plunket nurse
Plunket Society
plunky
pluperfect
plur.
plural

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLUNGING

banging
belonging
blogging
clinging
game-changing
gang-banging
hand-wringing
hanging
longing
mudslinging
overhanging
paperhanging
pinging
ringing
singing
springing
stinging
swinging
thronging
upbringing
wall hanging

Synonyms and antonyms of plunging in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PLUNGING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «plunging» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of plunging
career · cast · charge · crash · dash · descend · descent · dip · dive · douse · drop · duck · dunk · fall · go down · hurtle · immerse · immersion · jab · jump · lurch · nosedive · pitch · plummet · propel · push · rush · sink · slump · stab · stick · submerge · submersion · swoop · tear · throw · thrust · tumble

Translation of «plunging» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLUNGING

Find out the translation of plunging to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of plunging from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «plunging» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

暴跌
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sumiendo
570 millions of speakers

English

plunging
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डूबनेवाला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تغرق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

погружаясь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mergulhando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

plunging
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plongeant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jatuh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eintauchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

飛び込む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

급락
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Plunging
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

liều mạng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குதித்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डुक्कर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dalan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

precipitare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tłoczenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

занурюючись
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cufunda
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βυθίζοντας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

steil
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

störta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stuper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of plunging

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLUNGING»

The term «plunging» is quite widely used and occupies the 32.384 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLUNGING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «plunging» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «plunging» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about plunging

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9 QUOTES WITH «PLUNGING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word plunging.
1
Lynn Abbey
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
2
Kristen Bell
I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
3
Ines de La Fressange
If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
4
Ralph Ellison
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
5
Marc Faber
In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
6
Dan Flavin
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
7
Charlie Gonzalez
When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.
8
Robert Harris
I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.
9
Jack Welch
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLUNGING»

Discover the use of plunging in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to plunging and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Plunging Into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of ...
These extraordinary events provide the backdrop for Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy mdash;Ralph Pezzullo's detailed account of the international diplomatic effort to resolve the political crisis.
Ralph Pezzullo, 2006
2
Plunging Point: Intelligence Failures, Cover-ups and ...
Provides an overview for the general reader of how intelligence services work in the post 9/11 world, and how that world is evolving. This book outlines the historical context, problems and solutions for intelligence services.
Lance Collins, Warren Reed, 2005
3
Plunging Through the Clouds: Constructive Living Currents
Important and highly readable. Paper edition (unseen
David K. Reynolds, 1993
4
Plunging: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations PlungingThe machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.ndash;Antoine de Saint-Exupeacute;ryThe word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and ...
‎2008
5
Plunging
Poem about the deadly fall of a construction worker from a nearly completed condominium.
Edwidge Danticat, Gaylord Schanilec, Mary Ellen Niedenfuer, 2009
6
Analysis and Modeling of Plunging Flows
The classic paper by Akiyama & Stefan (1984) details the two-control-volume framework which has been used for the analysis of plunging phenomena. Following this framework, Parker & Toniolo (2007) corrected an error in Akiyama & Stefan ...
Hsi-Heng Dai, 2008
7
Plunging to leviathan?: exploring the world's political future
Can we predict the world's political future? The surprising wealth of research critiqued in this book suggests that earlier assessments of world trends pointed too pessimistically toward the likelihood of a future repressive world-state.
Robert Bates Graber, 2006
8
Plunging into the Kingdom Way: Practicing the Shared Strokes ...
Practicing the Shared Strokes of Community, Hospitality, Justice, and Confession Tim Dickau. called for, first and foremost, was within ourselves. Each of us faced different but penetrating questions: Why are we afraid of these folk? Why do we ...
Tim Dickau, 2011
9
Plunging Into the Very Depths of the Souls of Our People: ...
Cheryl R. Ragar. 'popular melodrama' that had 'played itself out.' It was time, Locke argued, 'to scrap the fictions, garret the bogeys and settle down to a realistic facing of facts.'"15 The old representations seemed fairly easy to define, at least ...
Cheryl R. Ragar, 2008
10
Free Surface Instabilities and Plunging Breaking Waves ...
The present research is motivated to study breaking waves and obtain validation data for two phase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results.
Surajeet Ghosh, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLUNGING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term plunging is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The dark side of China's heavy-handed response to its plunging
The Chinese stock markets plummeted Monday in the biggest one-day drop since 2007. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5 percent, ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
Khloé Kardashian showcases her curvaceous derrière for sporty …
Khloé Kardashian showcased her curvaceous derrière and ample cleavage in a sheer plunging leotard for a sporty spread shot by Steven ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Angola launches crackdown amid plunging oil prices
On a Saturday afternoon last month police raided a house in Luanda, the capital of Angola, and dragged 16 people out at gunpoint, covered ... «News24, Jul 15»
4
Malaysian minister downplays concerns over plunging ringgit …
KUALA LUMPUR: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Abdul Wahid Omar on Monday (Jul 27) downplayed Malaysia's plunging ringgit ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
5
Govt delays plan to raise coal royalties amid plunging
The government will postpone a plan to increase royalty payments from coal miners as they are already burdened with the commodity's ... «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
6
Iran n-deal may lead to excess oil supplies, plunging prices
The latest nuclear deal between Iran and world powers has been widely presumed as the last nail in the coffin for the global oil prices. «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
7
Japan's upper house starts debate on contentious war bills amid …
Japan's upper house starts debate on contentious war bills amid plunging support for Abe gov't. English.news.cn 2015-07-27 16:47:05. Xinhua Weibo ... «Xinhua, Jul 15»
8
Pro-Kurdish HDP warns interim gov't plunging Turkey into chaos on …
Pro-Kurdish HDP warns interim gov't plunging Turkey into chaos on purpose Speaking to the press before Monday's Central Committee ... «BGN NEWS, Jul 15»
9
Some GOP governors' popularity plunging
Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks to guests gathered for a campaign event at Jersey Grille on ... «Gulf Times, Jul 15»
10
Lady Gaga wears a plunging outfit as she shows off her diamond …
It's rather unique place for jewellery, but obviously the kind of fashion statement that we've come to expect from the Fame Monster. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

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