"plunging" meaning in English

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        "present participle and gerund of plunge"
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      "ipa": "/ˈplʌn.d͡ʒɪŋ/"
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      "rhymes": "-ʌndʒɪŋ"
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  "word": "plunging"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "plunging neckline"
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "That descends steeply."
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        "Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy."
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      "glosses": [
        "Very low-cut."
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        "(of the neckline of a dress) Very low-cut."
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  "word": "plunging"
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        "An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid."
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or The Whale",
          "text": "Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […].",
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          "ref": "1881, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Prince and The Pauper, Complete",
          "text": "Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment.",
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        "A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider."
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        "Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy."
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        "Very low-cut."
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        "(of the neckline of a dress) Very low-cut."
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