Crossword-Solution: PLUMMET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plummet | n. | A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. |
| Plummet | n. | A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n. |
| Plummet | n. | Hence, any weight. |
| Plummet | n. | A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “PLUMMET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Surveyer's item. | 1 answer |
| Descend precipitously | 1 answer |
| FALL sharply | 1 answer |
| Fall fruit gathered (7) | 1 answer |
| Fall like a stone | 1 answer |
| Fall straight down. | 1 answer |
| Go straight down | 1 answer |
| Plunge headlong | 1 answer |
| Fall rapidly | 2 answers |
| Fall uncontrollably | 3 answers |
| FALL headlong | 3 answers |
| Drop sharply | 3 answers |
| Drop dramatically | 3 answers |
| Fall straight down and suddenly | 3 answers |
| Drop precipitously | 4 answers |
| ASCENT (ant.) | 5 answers |
| Take a nosedive | 6 answers |
| FALL suddenly | 7 answers |
| Take a dive | 8 answers |
| freefall | 8 answers |
| CRASH down | 9 answers |
| Nose-dive | 12 answers |
| Go down | 36 answers |
| Fathom | 38 answers |
| Plunge | 42 answers |
| Dive | 43 answers |
| Descend | 63 answers |
| Lead | 75 answers |
| Fall | 100 answers |
| Drop | 103 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLUMMET (5)
Had I your opportunities, no scruples would prevent me from fathoming Clifford to the full depth of my plummet-line!” “How strange that you should wish it!” remarked Phœbe involuntarily.
The little fountain rippled monotonously, and a magnolia flower dropped from one of the trees, falling straight as a plummet through the motionless air, and settling upon the gravelled walk with a faint rustling sound.
Like a black pirate flag on the blue ocean of air, a hawk hung ominous; then, plummet-wise, dropped to the hedgerow, whence there rose, thin and shrill, a piteous voice of squealing.
Hadn’t he done well enough, so far as that went, in being exactly so dazzled? and in not having too, as he almost believed, wholly hidden from his host that he felt the latter’s plummet? Suddenly, across the garden, he saw little Bilham approach, and it was a part of the fit that was on him that as their eyes met he guessed also _his_ knowledge.
The main northern part of the lake is very deep, the plummet having shown an abyss of thirteen hundred feet; but the southern end is shallow and in places marshy.
Quotes with PLUMMET (3)
It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.
I had the dream again. I was leaning in the back corner of the elevator in my building looking down at the bundle of keys in my hand. Below my hand were the blurred outlines of my black leather lace-up boots and my frayed black jeans. There was ink all over my legs from the screen-printers in my shop. There was ink on the skin beneath the rips at my knee and my thigh where the rough edge of my work table had worn through... The detail was vivid, but there was an ethereal spar…
The leaf twirls gently To the dry ground The flake tumbles lightly To the snow mound The lightning falls mightily To the earth with a crash And I plummet sleepily From the fridge to the trash. Such is nature's way
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).