Plunge
Part of speech: noun
Definition: the act of plunging or submerging a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action to baptize by immersion to dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self to fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition to pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does to bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations to entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle) to overwhelm, overpower
Example sentence: A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
Engulf
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To overwhelm.To surround; to cover.