Synonyms of the word

parachute

• n. (aviation) A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control…
• n. (zoology) A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel…
• n. (BDSM) A small collar which fastens around the scrotum and from which weights can be hung.
• v. To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
• v. (followed by in) To be placed in an organisation in a position of authority without having previous experience…

chute

• n. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower…
• n. A parachute.
• v. To parachute.

dive

• v. To swim under water.
• v. To jump into water head-first.
• v. To descend sharply or steeply.
• v. (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
• v. (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's…
• v. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
• v. (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
• v. (figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to…
• n. A jump or plunge into water.
• n. A swim under water.
• n. A decline.
• n. (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
• n. (aviation) Aerial descend with the nose pointed down.
• n. (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
• n. plural of diva.

jump

• v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
• v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
• v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
• v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
• v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
• v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
• v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
• v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
• v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
• v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
• v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
• v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
• n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
• n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
• n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
• n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
• n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
• n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
• n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
• n. A jumping move in a board game.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
• n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
• n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
• n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
• n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
• adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
• adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
• n. A kind of loose jacket for men.

plunge

• n. the act of plunging or submerging.
• n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
• n. (dated) A swimming pool.
• n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
• n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
• n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or…
• v. (transitive) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
• v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
• v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

plunk

• v. (transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.
• v. (intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.
• v. (baseball, transitive) To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.
• v. (intransitive, of a raven) To croak.
• v. (transitive) To pluck and quickly release (a musical string); to twang.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).
• n. The dull thud of something landing on a surface.
• n. (slang, obsolete) A large sum of money.
• n. (slang, obsolete, US) A dollar.