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plunges

third-person singular simple present indicative form of plunge
- 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:
  He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.