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HURTLING |
Plunging |
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FALLING |
Plunging in value |
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NECKLINE |
Dress’s plunging ... |
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NOSEDIVING |
Suddenly plunging downwards |
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SOUSE |
The act of sousing; a plunging into water. |
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DEMERSION |
The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning. |
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DIP |
The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. |
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INFUSION |
The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid;
immersion. |
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BLANCH |
To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling
water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain
the juices. |
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SUBMERSION |
The act of submerging, or putting under water or other
fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water,
or of drowning. |
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BUCK |
To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the
fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a
vicious horse or mule. |
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CHURN |
A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or
otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to
separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter. |
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TEMPERING |
... various
purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated
to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of... |