Synonyms of the word

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.

absorb

• v. (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
• v. (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically…
• v. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as.
• v. (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
• v. (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
• v. (transitive) Assimilate mentally.
• v. (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
• v. (transitive) To defray the costs.
• v. (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.

begin

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
• v. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation.
• v. (intransitive) To come into existence.
• n. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

center

• n. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
• n. (geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
• n. (geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates…
• n. A place where some function or activity occurs.
• n. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
• n. (basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
• n. (ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the…
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
• n. (netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
• n. (soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
• n. (rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside…
• n. (architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position…
• n. (engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about…
• n. (engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point…
• n. (politics) The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
• adj. Of, at, or related to a center.
• v. (transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
• v. (transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway…
• v. (transitive) To give (something) a central basis.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
• v. (engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

centre

• n. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…
• v. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…

commence

• v. (intransitive) To begin, start.
• v. (transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.
• v. (Britain, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

concentrate

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather…
• v. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting…
• v. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
• v. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
• n. A substance that is in a condensed form.

dart

• n. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed…
• n. Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
• n. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
• n. A sudden or fast movement.
• n. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
• n. A fish; the dace.
• n. (in the plural) A game of throwing darts at a target.
• n. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
• v. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
• v. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
• v. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
• v. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

dash

• n. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal…
• n. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
• n. A short run.
• n. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
• n. Vigor.
• n. A dashboard.
• n. (Nigeria and Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
• n. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.).
• v. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
• v. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
• v. (transitive) To throw violently.
• v. (transitive) To sprinkle; to splatter.
• v. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
• v. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
• v. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
• v. To draw quickly; jot.
• v. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something…
• interj. (euphemistic) Damn!

descend

• v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
• v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
• v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
• v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
• v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
• v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
• v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

dip

• n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
• n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
• n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
• n. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
• n. A dip stick.
• n. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
• n. A sauce for dipping.
• n. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
• n. (archaic) A dipped candle.
• n. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which…
• n. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms…
• n. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin…
• n. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting…
• v. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• v. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
• v. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
• v. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order…
• v. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
• v. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
• v. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents…
• v. To immerse for baptism.
• v. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• v. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• v. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a…
• v. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance…
• v. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• v. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
• v. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
• v. (dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower…
• v. To slightly and swiftly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position,…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
• n. A foolish person.
• n. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

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.

douse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
• v. (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.
• v. (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
• v. (transitive) To strike.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly.
• n. A blow; stroke.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

dump

• n. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal…
• n. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
• n. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
• n. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
• n. (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically…
• n. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
• n. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
• n. (vulgar, slang, often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.
• n. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
• n. Absence of mind; revery.
• n. (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
• n. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
• n. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
• n. (historical, Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
• v. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
• v. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
• v. (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
• v. (transitive, computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive…
• v. (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose…
• v. (transitive, informal) To end a relationship with.
• v. (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump.
• v. (transitive, US) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting…
• v. (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
• n. (Britain, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
• n. (Britain, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

dunk

• v. To submerge briefly in a liquid.
• v. To set down carelessly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing…
• n. The act of dunking, particularly in basketball.

engross

• v. (transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized…
• v. (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity…
• v. (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially…
• v. (transitive) To completely engage the attention of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
• v. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
• v. (obsolete) To amass.

engulf

• v. (transitive) To overwhelm.
• v. (transitive) To surround; to cover.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

flash

• v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
• v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
• v. To be visible briefly.
• v. To make visible briefly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
• v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
• v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
• v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
• v. To communicate quickly.
• v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
• v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
• v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
• v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
• v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
• v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
• v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
• n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
• n. A very short amount of time.
• n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
• n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
• n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
• n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
• n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
• n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
• n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
• n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
• adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
• adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
• adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
• n. A pool.
• n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

focus

• n. (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
• n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
• n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic…
• n. (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
• n. (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath…
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.
• n. (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
• v. (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
• v. (transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the…
• v. (transitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so…

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

immerse

• v. (transitive) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
• v. (transitive) To involve deeply.
• v. (mathematics) Map into an immersion.
• adj. (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

launch

• v. (transitive) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
• v. (transitive) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to…
• v. (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the…
• n. The act of launching.
• n. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on…
• n. (nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often…
• n. (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
• n. (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish…

penetrate

• v. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
• v. (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
• v. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
• v. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
• v. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.

perforate

• v. to pierce; to penetrate.
• v. to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line.
• adj. (philately, biology) perforated.

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.

pore

• n. A tiny opening in the skin.
• n. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a…
• v. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
• v. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

rivet

• n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and…
• n. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
• n. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet).
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
• v. (transitive) To install rivets.
• v. (transitive) To command the attention of.

scoot

• n. (slang) A dollar.
• n. (slang) a scooter.
• v. To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.
• v. To ride on a scooter.
• v. (of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.

scud

• adj. (slang, Scotland) Naked.
• v. (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
• v. (Northumbria) To hit.
• v. (Northumbria) To speed.
• v. (Northumbria) To skim.
• n. The act of scudding.
• n. Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
• n. A gust of wind.
• n. (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
• n. A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
• n. Any swimming amphipod.
• n. (slang, Scotland) Pornography.
• n. (slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.

shoot

• v. To launch a projectile.
• v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
• v. (sports) To act or achieve.
• v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
• v. To develop, move forward.
• v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
• v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
• n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
• n. A photography session.
• n. A hunt or shooting competition.
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
• n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
• n. A rush of water; a rapid.
• n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• n. A shoat; a young pig.
• n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
• interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

souse

• n. Something kept or steeped in brine.
• n. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
• n. A person suffering from alcoholism.
• v. To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
• n. The act of sousing, or swooping.
• n. A heavy blow.
• v. (now dialectal, transitive) to strike, beat.
• v. (now dialectal, intransitive) to fall heavily.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) to pounce upon.
• n. (obsolete) sou (the French coin).
• n. (dated) A small amount.

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

steep

• adj. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
• adj. (informal) expensive.
• adj. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
• adj. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove…
• v. (intransitive) To imbue with something.
• n. A liquid used in a steeping process.
• n. A rennet bag.

swim

• v. (intransitive, archaic) To float.
• v. (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural…
• v. (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize…
• v. (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
• v. (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
• v. (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather…
• v. (transitive) To undergo a giddy sensation.
• n. An act or instance of swimming.
• n. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
• n. (Britain) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
• abbr. (Internet slang, text messaging) Someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination,…

swimming

• v. present participle of swim.
• n. The activity of moving oneself through water using one's arms and legs while buoyed up by the water, carried…
• n. A giddy sensation.