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plunging
UK
/ˈplʌndʒɪŋ/
US
/ˈplʌndʒɪŋ/
Examples
At length, to my great joy, I came to a wide bayou, and plunging in, had soon stemmed its sluggish current to the other side.
Enfin, à ma grande joie, j'arrivai à un large bayou et, plongeant dedans, je franchis bientôt son lent courant jusqu'à l'autre rive.
If a piece of steel is heated to dull redness and suddenly cooled by plunging it into cold water, it becomes so extremely hard that it cannot be acted on by a file
Si l’on chauffe un morceau d’acier jusqu’au rouge sombre puis qu’on le refroidit brusquement en le plongeant dans l’eau froide, il devient si dur qu’une lime ne peut l’entamer.