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plummet
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    The temperature plummeted.
    plummeted = dropped a lot suddenly
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    Failure warnings were already flashing on my display, and my hit-point counter was starting to plummet.  (source)
    plummet = decrease rapidly
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    As 1945 begins, temperatures plummet further.  (source)
    plummet = falls
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    He was not seen again; it is assumed he broke through a thin snow bridge and plummeted to his death at the bottom of one of the deep fissures.  (source)
    plummeted = fell
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    I imagine my body plummeting, smacking into the bars as it falls down, and my limbs at broken angles on the pavement, just like Rita's sister when she didn't make it onto the roof.  (source)
    plummeting = falling
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    Objects, whether planets or apples, fall or orbit, not because of a gravitational energy, but because they plummet into the silky folds of spacetime—like into the ripples on a pond—created by those of higher mass.  (source)
    plummet = fall
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    But although Owen agreed with me that the rector was a moron who messed up the Bible for tentative believers by assaulting us with the worst of God the Almighty and God the Terrible—and although Owen acknowledged that the Rev. Mr. Wiggin's sermons were about as entertaining and convincing as a pilot's voice in the intercom, explaining technical difficulties while the plane plummets toward the earth and the stewardesses are screaming—Owen actually preferred Wiggin to what little he knew of Pastor Merrill.†  (source)
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    Saved you, I'd think, holding their souls in midair as the rest of their being—their physical shells—plummeted to the earth.  (source)
    plummeted = fell rapidly
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    He pulled himself upward, pushed again—he was higher now than Lina had been—but suddenly his hands slid and he came plummeting down.  (source)
    plummeting = falling
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    A flood of tears soaked through his fingers and his soul seemed to plummet.†  (source)
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    My heart plummets.†  (source)
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    Up in the sky, two more dactyls folded their wings, collapsing into small dark shapes that plummeted toward the ground.  (source)
    plummeted = moved downward very quickly
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    "STOP!" he yelled, whacking the dashboard and the windshield, but they were still plummeting, the ground flying up toward them "WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!"  (source)
    plummeting = falling
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    Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.  (source)
    plummet = the metal weight of a plumb line (used to measure water depth)
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    But this rough magic I here abjure; And, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,— To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.  (source)
    plummet = the metal weight of a plumb line used to measure the depth of water
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