- plumb
- [[t]plʌ̱m[/t]]
plumbs, plumbing, plumbed1) VERB If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it. [LITERARY]
[V n] She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions...
[V n] Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.
Syn:2) ADV: ADV prep If something is plumb in a particular place, it is exactly in that place. [INFORMAL]The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street...
Grenville took another wallop plumb on the jaw.
Syn:3) VERB When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.[V n] She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
4) ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v (emphasis) Plumb is used to give emphasis to an adjective or verb that describes a feeling or condition. [AM, INFORMAL, SPOKEN]I find I'm plumb depressed by it...
This thing has plumb worn me out.
5) PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR of n If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair...
Is this the first of many questions that will plumb the depths of stupidity?
6) PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR of n If you say that something plumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths...
Last night's harrowing television pictures plumbed new depths of depravity.
Phrasal Verbs:- plumb in
English dictionary. 2008.
