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Synonyms for plummet

drop

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Synonyms for plummet

to undergo a sharp, rapid descent in value or price

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Synonyms for plummet

the metal bob of a plumb line

drop sharply

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Tarzan had felt the instantaneous relaxation of the body beneath him after the heavy impact with the tree limb, and as the other turned completely over and started again upon its fall toward the ground, he reached forth a hand and caught the branch in time to stay his own descent, while the ape dropped like a plummet to the foot of the tree.
Light as it was, I heard it fall like a plummet. He swallowed slowly, tilting up the bottle by little and little, and now he looked at me no more.
But the plummet of his hearing brought nothing to him save the moaning of wind through invisible trees and the rustling of leaves on swaying branches.
She rumbled in her depths, shaking a white plummet of steam into the night, and Jukes' thought skimmed like a bird through the engine-room, where Mr.
In Figure 1 there are presented selected applications of the optoelectronic plummets.
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frenatus arrives on an island, the population of the unisexual species plummets. Susan Brown, a biologist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, wonders why.
The researchers theorized that as people age, their secretion of growth hormone plummets, leaving them flabby and frail.
Unlike the hormone estrogen, which plummets in women after menopause, the hormone testosterone does not dramatically decrease in men as they age.
They contacted people at DebRA, a national EB support group, and were put in contact with a woman named Stacey Plummet, an EB sufferer who runs a local support group in North Carolina.