
- Newsday Crossword
- March 30 2025
- Take a dive
Take a dive
We have found the following answers matching the query 'Take a dive' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Take a dive crossword clue was last seen on March 30 2025 in the popular Newsday Crossword.
Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | 99% | PLUNGE | Take a dive | Newsday |
20% | SCUBA | Take a dive, perhaps | Newsday |
Definition
• | To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. |
• | To baptize by immersion. |
• | To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. |
• | To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt. |
• | To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. |
• | To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations. |
• | The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge. |
• | Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. |
• | The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse. |
• | Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation. |
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