plonge

See also: plongé

English

Etymology

See plunge.

Verb

plonge (third-person singular simple present plonges, present participle plonging, simple past and past participle plonged)

  1. (transitive) To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plonge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plɔ̃ʒ/
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Noun

plonge f (plural plonges)

  1. (France, informal) the work of washing dishes

Derived terms

Verb

plonge

  1. inflection of plonger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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