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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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