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How to pronounce plummet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms plump
Type of drop


The stock market plummeted.
Type Words
Synonyms plumb, plumb bob
Type of bob

Examples of plummet

plummet
That has seen the party's popularity plummet to single figures in opinion polls.
From the thenewstribune.com
Yet theirs did plummet dramatically, to just 25% of the normal summertime level.
From the time.com
More of you have lost your homes and more are watching your home values plummet.
From the delawareonline.com
As temperatures plummet, a host of nasty bugs and viruses rear their ugly heads.
From the metro.co.uk
Their performance evaluations may plummet and their political support evaporate.
From the economist.com
Hunting and habitat destruction have cause their numbers to plummet in the wild.
From the stltoday.com
It flooded the place with flats only to see rents plummet as the Depression hit.
From the smh.com.au
If workers get angry or bored to tears, their productivity is bound to plummet.
From the businessweek.com
They have continued to plummet by about 25 percent since the beginning of 2011.
From the forbes.com
More examples
  • Drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"
  • Plumb bob: the metal bob of a plumb line
  • Plummet is a trance duo from Florida. The act consists of producer/remixer Eric B. Muniz (aka DJ X) and female vocalist, Cheramy Burgess.
  • A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; A plumb bob or a plumb line; Hence, any weight; A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing; a plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line; Violent or dramatic fall; decline; ...
  • Method of ruling the guide lines on a page using red lead
  • A leadpoint, also known as plummet, is a piece of lead alloy, sometimes contained in a holder (the precursor of a pencil), which could be used for drawing, annotation, and ruling. Leadpoint began to be widely used in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. ...
  • A weight which may be used as a plumb bob, netsinker or for any similar purpose.
  • A problematic polished stone artifact that has many conjectured intended uses. In all likelihood a cerimonial object.
  • V. fall rapidly straight down