plunged
Because it is a word with a single syllable, plunged is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofplunged
- To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
Example: "to plunge the body into water"
- To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
Example: "to plunge a dagger into the breast; to plunge a nation into war"
- To baptize by immersion.
- To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
Example: "he plunged into the river"
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
Example: "to plunge into debt; to plunge into controversy"
- To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
- To overwhelm, overpower.
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