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plummet

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plum·met  (plmt)
n.
1. See plumb bob.
2. Something that weighs down or oppresses; a burden.
intr.v. plum·met·ed, plum·met·ing, plum·mets
1. To fall straight down; plunge.
2. To decline suddenly and steeply: Stock prices plummeted.

[Middle English plomet, from Old French, ball of lead, diminutive of plom, plomb, sounding lead, from Latin plumbum.]

plummet
Verb
[-meting, -meted]
to drop down; plunge
Noun
the weight on a plumb line or fishing line [Old French plommet ball of lead]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.plummetplummet - the metal bob of a plumb line
bob - a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
plumb line, perpendicular - a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
Verb1.plummet - drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"
drop - to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"

plummet
verb 1. drop, fall, crash, nose-dive, descend rapidly
2. plunge, fall, drop, crash, tumble, swoop, stoop, nose-dive, descend rapidly
Translations
Spanish plummet [ˈplʌmɪt] vi to plummet (down) → caer a plomo
French plummet [ˈplʌmɪt] vi [person, object] → plonger; [sales, prices] → dégringoler
German plummet [ˈplʌmɪt] vi [bird, aircraft] → (hinunter)stürzen; [price, rate] → rapide absacken
Italian plummet [ˈplʌmɪt] vicadere a piombo

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He stopped his horse, raised the trap and dropped his phonographic voice, like a lead plummet, through the aperture:
This spring, or rather these two springs, are two holes, each about two feet diameter, a stone's cast distant from each other; the one is but about five feet and a half in depth--at least we could not get our plummet farther, perhaps because it was stopped by roots, for the whole place is full of trees; of the other, which is somewhat less, with a line of ten feet we could find no bottom, and were assured by the inhabitants that none ever had been found.
Yet even then beyond the reach of any plummet --"out of the belly of hell" --when the whale grounded upon the ocean's utmost bones, even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried.
 
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