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noun Also called plumb bob . a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
something that weighs down or depresses.
verb (used without object) Origin of plummet 1350–1400; (noun) Middle English plommet <Middle French, diminutive of plomb lead; (v.) derivative of the noun See plumb, -et
SYNONYMS FOR plummet 3 fall, dive, drop, swoop.
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OTHER WORDS FROM plummet un·plum·met·ed, adjective Words nearby plummet plumelet, plume moth, plume oneself, plummer block, Plummer-Vinson syndrome, plummet , plummy, plumose, plump, plumpen, plumper
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Example sentences from the Web for plummet Wind chills will plummet to around -20ºF on Friday for Hartford, Providence, and western Massachusetts.
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Interest rates will soar, home values will plummet , stock markets will crash, and global economies will crater.
Crying Wolf on Capitol Hill | Joe McLean| October 11, 2013| DAILY BEAST
But it would be the quickest way for her to plummet in the approval of the Burmese masses.
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Who heartlessly kicks Aziz Ansari into a hole, causing him to plummet to his death, instead of trying to save him?
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That strategy was revealed as a loser when print advertising began to plummet , and fall, and then fall again.
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A bead P, kept in its place by friction, is threaded on the plummet line at some convenient height above H.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 | Various
He dropped the ship like a plummet while the ray operators prepared to sweep the formation with their beams.
Islands of Space | John W Campbell
Oh, is there any plummet to sound the depths of a mother's love?
Debts of Honor | Maurus Jkai
But this fool seemed intent on baiting the Pacific with a plummet , a hook, and a lump of salt pork.
Foe-Farrell | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The soundings, when the plummet first touches the ground, on approaching the shores, give some idea of this.
The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts
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British Dictionary definitions for plummet verb -mets , -meting or -meted (intr) to drop down; plunge
noun another word for plumb bob
a lead plumb used by anglers to determine the depth of water
Word Origin for plummet C14: from Old French plommet ball of lead, from plomb lead, from Latin plumbum
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Words related to plummet plunge, crash, collapse, tumble, dive, drop, decline, decrease, sink, fall, dip, skid, descend, nose-dive, stoop, precipitate, swoop, dump, downturn