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- DictionaryPlum·met/ˈpləmət/
verb
- 1. fall or drop straight down at high speed: "a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully"
noun
- 1. a steep and rapid fall or drop: "the bird has a circular display flight followed by an earthward plummet"
- 2. a plumb or plumb line.
1. To fall straight down; plunge. 2. To decline suddenly and steeply: Stock prices plummeted. [Middle English plomet, from Old French, ball of lead, diminutive of plom, plomb, sounding lead, from Latin plumbum .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
to fall very quickly in amount or value: Temperatures plummeted to minus 20. (Definition of plummet from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Apr 9, 2024 · ( archaic, nautical) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line . ( archaic) Hence, any weight . ( archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines ). A violent or dramatic fall.
Definition of plummet verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The verb plummet means "to drop sharply," like eagles that plummet toward earth, seeking prey, or school attendance that plummets when there is a flu outbreak. To correctly pronounce plummet, say "PLUH-met." This verb describes something that drops sharply or quickly, like a roller coaster that plummets down a hill, temperatures that plummet ...
2 days ago · plummet in American English. (ˈplʌmɪt) noun. 1. 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. 2. something that weighs down or depresses. intransitive verb.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English plum‧met /ˈplʌmɪt/ (also plummet down) verb [ intransitive] 1 to suddenly and quickly decrease in value or amount SYN plunge plummet from something to something Profits plummeted from £49 million to £11 million.
