plummet
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Is plummet a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic, nautical) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.Examples: "I'le ſeeke him deeper than ere plummet ſounded, / And with him there lye mudded."; "Iudgement also will I lay to the line, and righteousnesse to the plummet: and the haile shall sweepe away the refuge of lyes, and the waters shall ouerflow the hiding place."; "Each long black hair upon his head hung down as straight as any plummet line; […]"archaic
2. (archaic) Hence, any weight.Examples: "His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet."archaic
3. (archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).archaic
4. (figuratively) A decline; a fall; a drop.Examples: "Yet another seriously under-par performance is unlikely to provide any real answers to their remarkable plummet in form - but it proves they can at least churn out a much-needed result."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.Examples: "After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth."; "The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle."; "Some speculated Twitter’s stock would plummet, while another said the company would not have to be owned by “a moron,” using an expletive to refer to Mr. Musk."Synonyms: dive, drop, fallintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary