plonge
See also: plongé
English
editEtymology
editSee plunge.
Verb
editplonge (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
editFrench
editPronunciation
editNoun
editplonge f (plural plonges)
Derived terms
editVerb
editplonge
- inflection of plonger:
Further reading
edit- “plonge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.