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   plummet

   /ˈplʌmɪt/

   verb

   • 1. fall or drop straight down at high speed: "a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully" Similar plungefall headlonghurtlenosedivedivedropcrashdescend rapidly
   • ▪ decrease rapidly in value or amount: "hardware sales plummeted" Similar fall steeply/sharplyplungetumbledrop/decrease rapidlygo downsinkslumpinformal:crashnosedivetake a nosedive

   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.

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French plommet ‘small sounding lead’, diminutive of plomb ‘lead’. The current verb sense dates from the 1930s.

   Scrabble Points: 13

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