"plunge into" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plunges into",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plunging into",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plunged into",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plunged into",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "plunges into",
        "2": "plunging into",
        "3": "plunged into"
      },
      "expansion": "plunge into (third-person singular simple present plunges into, present participle plunging into, simple past and past participle plunged into)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (into)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, David Gale, The Theory of Linear Economic Models",
          "text": "Before asking the reader to plunge into the subject of linear models I shall, in accordance with a sensible custom, attempt in the few pages which follow to give some idea of what this subject is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 38",
          "text": "At 0508 on July 18 1981, the last freight train plunged into the 3-mile 66-yard Woodhead Tunnel at Dunford Bridge. [...] As it emerged back into the daylight at Woodhead at 0514, heading west, that was it for this famous railway line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A partial synonym of plunge in."
      ],
      "id": "en-plunge_into-en-verb-oIURw~uA",
      "links": [
        [
          "plunge in",
          "plunge in#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plunge into"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plunges into",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plunging into",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plunged into",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "plunged into",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "plunges into",
        "2": "plunging into",
        "3": "plunged into"
      },
      "expansion": "plunge into (third-person singular simple present plunges into, present participle plunging into, simple past and past participle plunged into)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (into)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, David Gale, The Theory of Linear Economic Models",
          "text": "Before asking the reader to plunge into the subject of linear models I shall, in accordance with a sensible custom, attempt in the few pages which follow to give some idea of what this subject is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 38",
          "text": "At 0508 on July 18 1981, the last freight train plunged into the 3-mile 66-yard Woodhead Tunnel at Dunford Bridge. [...] As it emerged back into the daylight at Woodhead at 0514, heading west, that was it for this famous railway line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A partial synonym of plunge in."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plunge in",
          "plunge in#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plunge into"
}