v
(transitive) To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.
n
(geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
v
(intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.
v
(dated) To ride a motorcycle or other vehicle at high speed.
v
To collapse inward or downward.
n
The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
v
Obsolete form of ditch (“to dig a trench”). [(transitive) To discard or abandon.]
n
The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
v
(transitive) To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse
v
(transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
v
(intransitive) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
v
(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
v
(nonstandard, dialectal) To drown.
v
(transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To crouch in order to hide or protect oneself.
n
Obsolete form of duck. [(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.]
v
To submerge briefly in a liquid.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To fall violently; dash down; move with violence.
v
(nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
n
A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
n
(countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
v
(transitive) To put out or reduce a fire by squirting water on the fire with a hose.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To become cool; cool down.
v
(intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.
v
(transitive) To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.
n
One who plunges; a diver.
adj
(informal) Into which one can sink.
adv
(now rare, dialectal) Suddenly, without warning.
v
(of a spacecraft or other flying object) To land in water.
v
(transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
v
(intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
v
(intransitive) To convert to Anglicanism.
v
Alternative form of take on water [(of a ship, boat, or other watercraft) To slowly fill with water, as due to a leak or being washed by high waves; to begin to sink.]
v
(US, colloquial) To run away; to back down.
v
(idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
v
(transitive) To drink (something) from a container by pouring it from a height so as not to touch one's lips to the rim.
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