plummet
暴跌,骤降,重挫,骤然下跌
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Definitions
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- : Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- : something that weighs down or depresses.
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- : to plunge.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
If you diagnose a plummet in traffic, it may become essential sooner than this.
Brands thought these people would bring them money, but when they realize that these characters don’t hold longevity and they see a massive plummet, they don’t go back to those people.
For example, in British Columbia, greenhouse gas emissions might go up, while in Saskatchewan, they would plummet.
Wind chills will plummet to around -20ºF on Friday for Hartford, Providence, and western Massachusetts.
And their value would surely plummet in the event of a default.
Interest rates will soar, home values will plummet, stock markets will crash, and global economies will crater.
But it would be the quickest way for her to plummet in the approval of the Burmese masses.
That the human mind with its poor plummet has already sounded the depths of the divine oracles!
He means the builder's plummet, which Zorobabel shall hold in his hand for the finishing the building.-Ibid.
Something like a bath; on first investigation, seems bottomless; but plummet reaches conclusion at last.
But how about direct taxation, the manly sacrifice of free peoples, the plummet by which to sound the enlightenment of a nation?
The bees droned, and the wheeling buzzard suddenly dropped like a plummet a hundred yards through the larkspur blue.