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plum‧met/ˈplʌmət, ˈplʌmɪt/ (also plummet down) verb [INTRANSITIVE]
[date : 1900-2000; Origin : plummet 'metal weight on a plumb line' (14-21 centuries), from Old French plommet 'small ball of lead', from plomb; ⇨ plumb¹]
1. to suddenly and quickly decrease in value or amount SYN plunge
plummet from something to something
　 ▪ Profits plummeted from £49 million to £11 million.
　 ▪ House prices have plummeted down.

2. to fall suddenly and quickly from a very high place SYN plunge:
　 ▪ The plane plummeted towards the Earth.
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THESAURUS
▪decrease to become less in number or amount :
　 ▪ The average rainfall has decreased by around 30 percent.
▪go down to decrease. Go down is less formal than decrease and is the usual word to use in conversation :
　 ▪ Unemployment has gone down in the past few months.
▪decline formal to decrease – used with numbers or amounts, or about the level or standard of something :
　 ▪ The standard of living has declined.
　 ▪ Support for the government is steadily declining.
　 ▪ Salaries have declined by around 4.5%.
▪diminish to become smaller or less important :
　 ▪ Union membership diminished from 30,000 at its height to just 2,000 today.
▪fall/drop to decrease, especially by a large amount. Fall and drop are less formal than decrease :
　 ▪ The number of tigers in the wild has fallen to just over 10,000.
　 ▪ At night, the temperature drops to minus 20 degrees.
▪plunge /plʌndʒ//plummet /ˈplʌmət, ˈplʌmɪt/ to suddenly decrease very quickly and by a very large amount :
　 ▪ Share prices have plummeted 29% in the last four months.
　 ▪ Climate change could cause global temperatures to plummet.
▪slide if a price or value slides, it gradually decreases in a way that causes problems – used especially in news reports :
　 ▪ The dollar fell in late trading in New York yesterday and slid further this morning.
▪dwindle /ˈdwɪndl/ to gradually decrease until there is very little left of something, especially numbers or amounts, popularity, or importance :
　 ▪ Support for the theory is dwindling.
▪taper off /ˈteɪpə $ -ər/ if a number or the amount of an activity that is happening tapers off, it gradually decreases, especially so that it stops completely :
　 ▪ Political violence tapered off after the elections.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
down
▪ It plummets down towards the sunning man on the lawn.
more
▪ The Nasdaq Combined Composite index, home to many of these stocks, plummeted more than 3 percent today.
NOUN
percent
▪ Sixty-five percent of women start off breastfeeding - but that figure plummets to 40 percent in the six weeks after delivery.
▪ But two years later, that figure has plummeted to 39 percent.
▪ The Nasdaq Combined Composite index, home to many of these stocks, plummeted more than 3 percent today.
▪ Meanwhile, new-homes sales plummeted by 10.9 percent in January, the biggest drop in seven years.
price
▪ All over the world prices were plummeting and so were distraught financiers.
▪ World rice and rubber prices plummeted and production was cut.
▪ Within months farm prices had plummeted and wages were also being driven steadily down.
▪ In 1994, when bond prices plummeted, so did trading revenue.
▪ He also ordered the government to buy more school lunch beef to bolster cattle prices, now plummeting because of a drought.
▪ Land prices plummeted as Hindus as well as Sikhs left the state to escape violence.
▪ Microsoft appealed against this ruling-the case goes back to court next month-but its share price plummeted.
VERB
send
▪ Inflation fears and rising interest rates sent the stock market plummeting to its fourth consecutive loss yesterday.
▪ The gloomy developments have sent tobacco stock prices plummeting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Enrollment at the school has plummeted to 25 students.
▪ The helicopters slammed together before plummeting to the ground.
▪ The rope snapped, causing the climber to plummet several hundred feet down the mountain.
▪ Two aircraft on a training flight collided and plummeted to the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the price of big houses like that has really plummeted in the last year.
▪ Beef sales, prices and consumer demand have plummeted.
▪ But two years later, that figure has plummeted to 39 percent.
▪ Like a bulldozer plowing through snow, the plummeting granite sheet shoved air ahead of it.
▪ Retail sales of the quintessential red meats are plummeting, whilst vegetarianism has become a fashionable norm.
▪ Sixty-five percent of women start off breastfeeding - but that figure plummets to 40 percent in the six weeks after delivery.
▪ The ledges gleamed in the air briefly in the gray light then plummeted as the water gargled and spat all around them.
▪ With a sudden drop-pounce, he plummets.