plonge
See also: plongé
English edit
Etymology edit
See plunge.
Verb edit
plonge (third-person singular simple present plonges, present participle plonging, simple past and past participle plonged)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plonge f (plural plonges)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
plonge
- inflection of plonger:
Further reading edit
- “plonge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.