The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PLUNGE
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More clues leading to the result PLUNGE
- With power thrust forward and fall precipitously
- Enter the pool, taking breather during PE
- End of loop on rope used to train horses to duck
- Swim quietly with thrusting forward movement
- This may be taken as commitment
- Quietly pounce and land in water
- Take a breather during exercise dive
- Immerse in pitch
- Pitch exercises interrupted by breather
- Quiet organ before start of evensong
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What does PLUNGE mean?
PLUNGE noun- The act of plunging or submerging
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
- A swimming pool
- The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
- Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
- An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
- To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
- To baptize by immersion.
- To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
- To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
- To overwhelm, overpower.