plummet
A violent or dramatic fallA violent or dramatic fall.
» Home prices are plummeting.
Die Immobilienpreise gehen in den Keller. — Dani6187
darinmex · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
5 sensesA violent or dramatic fall.
Sturz, Absturz, Sturzflug
(figuratively)A decline; a fall; a drop.
Abfall, Absturz, Rickgang
(archaic)A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.
Lot, Blei, Senker
лотlot, отве́сotvés
the metal bob of a plumb line
(archaic)Hence, any weight.
Gewicht, Bleigewicht
(archaic)A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).
Examples
26 sentencesHome prices are plummeting.
deDie Immobilienpreise gehen in den Keller. — Dani6187
Tom's grades soon plummeted.
Their readership plummeted to almost zero.
deIhr Leserkreis sank fast bis auf Null ab. — MisterTrouser
The price of rice has plummeted.
Sales will surely plummet without this change.
deDie Verkaufszahlen sinken garantiert ohne diese Änderung. — MisterTrouser
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English plommet (“ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, frFrom Middle English plommet (“ball of lead, plumb of a bob-line”), recorded since 1382, from Old French plommet or plomet, the diminutive of plom, plum (“lead, sounding lead”), from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The verb is first recorded in 1626, originally meaning “to fathom, take soundings", from the noun.
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