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Meaning:
Noun:
- a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
- figuratively the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
- obsolete an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
- slang heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
- the act of plunging or submerging
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Verb:
- intransitive to fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition
- transitive to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action
- obsolete to entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle)
- obsolete to overwhelm, overpower
- slang to bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations
- intransitive to dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self
- intransitive to pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does
- obsolete to baptize by immersion
- transitive to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse;
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