Plunge v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plunged p. pr. & vb. n. Plunging ]
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.”
Bound and plunged him into a cell. --Tennyson.
We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I. Watts.
2. To baptize by immersion.
3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.]
Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. --Sir T. Browne.