plummet
Origin of plummet
Synonyms for plummet
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plunge, crash, collapse, tumble, dive, drop, decline, decrease, sink, fall, dip, skid, descend, nose-dive, stoop, precipitate, swoop, dump, downturnExamples from the Web for plummet
Contemporary Examples of plummet
Wind chills will plummet to around -20ºF on Friday for Hartford, Providence, and western Massachusetts.
Interest rates will soar, home values will plummet, stock markets will crash, and global economies will crater.
But it would be the quickest way for her to plummet in the approval of the Burmese masses.
Who heartlessly kicks Aziz Ansari into a hole, causing him to plummet to his death, instead of trying to save him?
That strategy was revealed as a loser when print advertising began to plummet, and fall, and then fall again.
Historical Examples of plummet
And love was the plummet dropped down into the deeps of him where like had never gone.
White FangJack London
Oh, is there any plummet to sound the depths of a mother's love?
Debts of HonorMaurus Jkai
No plummet ever sank so deep as Jamie sank the thoughts of those few months.
Pirate GoldFrederic Jesup Stimson
Her singles were perfectly round, and as flat at the top as if laid with a plummet.
This line, with a plummet, is mentioned by Lucilius; and was the sund-gyrd of the Anglo-Saxons.
The Sailor's Word-BookWilliam Henry Smyth