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Meaning of डुबकी in English

  • of Dip
  • The act or process of immersing.
  • The act of inclining downward.
  • The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
  • The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
  • The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
  • To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
  • Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
  • To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.
  • To explore by diving; to plunge into.
  • A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
  • A place of low resort.
  • To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.
  • To baptize by immersion.
  • To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
  • To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
  • To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
  • To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
  • The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
  • Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
  • The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
  • Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
  • of Souse
  • The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.
  • The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.
  • The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned.

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