關於Plummet的意思和用法的提問

A: Plummet - fall or drop at a high speed

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To fall very quickly

A: Falling to the bottom.

A: It means to fall quickly.
"The plane plummeted to the ground."

A: Plummet means to drop very fast.

A: When his parachute failed to open he plummeted towards the ground.

A: After I got accepted to college, my grades plummeted.
When he was skydiving, he plummeted toward the ground.

Plummet is used to describe something going down extremely suddenly and quickly.

A: Plummet: fall straight down at high speed. (A climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet from a mountain.)

Drop: Something that was once held was released and allowed to fall. (The child dropped the ball he was holding.)

Fall: Downward movement in general, usually uncontrolled, (The snow fell all night long.)

A: "Plummet" literally means "fall through the air" and "slump" literally means "slide downward in one's seat." So plummeting is much more serious.

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I don't see any reason why the writer needed to say the same thing twice.

However, in the real world, there is one tiny slight difference between these two words.

I have noticed that people say plunge when somebody has chosen to fall very rapidly towards something. Plummet, however, tends to be used when there is no choice involved.

A: They are synonyms with a small difference. But to plummet is to fall unwillingly in many cases. To plunge to to dive or fall willing.

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