| Main Entry: | keel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall |
Synonyms: |
black out, capsize, collapse, drop, faint, founder, go down, overturn, pass out, pitch, plunge, slump, swoon, topple, tumble, upset |
| Main Entry: | go down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose, fall |
Synonyms: |
be beaten, be defeated, cave in, collapse, crumple, decline, decrease, descend, droop, drop, fold, founder, go under, keel, lessen, make less, pitch, plunge, reduce, sag, set, sink, slump, submerge, submerse, submit, succumb, suffer defeat, topple, tumble |
Antonyms: |
gain, go up, increase |
| Main Entry: | plunge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dive or fall fast |
Synonyms: |
belly-flop, career, cast, charge, dash, descend, dip, drive, drop, duck, fling, go down, go the limit, go whole hog, hurtle, immerge, immerse, jump, keel, lunge, lurch, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunk, propel, rush, shoot the works, sink, sound, submerge, submerse, swoop, take a flyer, take a header, tear, throw, throw oneself, thrust, topple, tumble |
Antonyms: |
ascend, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | tumble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall or make fall awkwardly |
Synonyms: |
bowl down, bring down, descend, dip, disarrange, disarray, disorder, disturb, do a pratfall, down, drop, fall headlong, flatten, floor, flop, go belly up, go down, hit the dirt, jumble, keel, keel over, knock down, knock over, level, lose footing, lose it, mess up, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunge, roll, sag, skid, slip, slump, spill, stumble, take a header, tip over, topple, toss, trip, unsettle, upset |
| Concept: | Plunge. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking; diver.
-verbs
plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge; bathe (water)., submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom., get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.
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Antonyms: |
leap |
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