plummet
to suddenly drop, reduce, or decline
TRANSLATION
stürzen, schnell senken
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Oil price PLUMMETS on Baghdad offer - Oil prices have risen 40% so far this year News of Iraq's agreement to re-admit weapons inspectors for the first time since December 1998 has triggered a slump in the price of oil."
(BBC News - Tuesday, 17 September, 2002)
(BBC News - Tuesday, 17 September, 2002)
Did you
know?
Did you know?
plummet
Is from the Middle English plomet, from Old French, ball of lead, diminutive of plom, plomb, sounding lead, from Latin plumbum.
1.To fall straight down; plunge.
2.To decline suddenly and steeply: "Stock prices plummeted."
Quite a few English synonyms for this word,... we obviously like to describe falling things :)
collapse, crash, decline, decrease, descend, dip, dive, downturn, drop, drop down, dump, fall, nose-dive, plunge, precipitate, sink, skid, stoop, swoop, tumble
plummet
Is from the Middle English plomet, from Old French, ball of lead, diminutive of plom, plomb, sounding lead, from Latin plumbum.
1.To fall straight down; plunge.
2.To decline suddenly and steeply: "Stock prices plummeted."
Quite a few English synonyms for this word,... we obviously like to describe falling things :)
collapse, crash, decline, decrease, descend, dip, dive, downturn, drop, drop down, dump, fall, nose-dive, plunge, precipitate, sink, skid, stoop, swoop, tumble
