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单词 plumb
例句 plumbadjective

having no exceptions or restrictionsa horror movie that's plumb trash and further evidence of the deterioration of popular culture

absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming(chiefly British), bodacious(Southern & Midland), categorical(also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very

authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritableconstant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremittingextreme, unrestrictedconfirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterateextraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific

doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertain

rising straight upthe wall was not plumb, so everything else in the room was out of kilter

erect, perpendicular, raised, stand-up, standing, upright, upstanding, vertical

elevated, lifted, upended, upraisedsemierectfreestanding, stand-alone

flat, recumbent

prostrate, supinediagonal, hanging, sagging, slant, slanted, slanting, slanty

plumbadverb

in a direct line or courseI can't believe he walked plumb into the tree, without even seeing it!

dead, direct, directly, due, plump, right, straight, straightway

as the crow flies

indirectly

circuitously, deviously, veeringly

chiefly dialectto a full extent or degreeI'm plumb tuckered out

all, all of, all over, altogether, clean, completely, dead, enough, entire, entirely, even, exactly, fast, flat, full, fully, heartily, out, perfectly, quite, soundly, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, well, wholly, wide

absolutely, categorically, cold, downright, hands down, plain, stone, stone-cold, unqualifiedlybasically, by and large, chiefly, generally, largely, mainly, more or less, mostly, overall, predominantly, predominately, primarily, principally, substantiallyabundantly, copiously, generously, greatly

all the way, at length, down the line, down to the ground, for fair, in whole, to bits, to pieces, to the hilt, to the max

half, halfway, incompletely, part, partially, partly

barely, hardly, just, kind of, marginally, minimally, scarcely, slightly, superficiallyapproximately, roughly, somewhat

without delaywe had no sooner resolved that crisis than we plumb rushed into another one

bang, directly, forthwith, headlong, immediately, incontinently, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, now, PDQ, presently, promptly, pronto, right, right away, right now, right off, straight off, straightaway, straightway

away, freelyanon, momentarily, shortly, soonapace, briskly, fast, fleetly, full-tilt, posthaste, quick, quickly, rapidly, readily, snappily, speedily, swift, swiftlyabruptly, presto, suddenly, unexpectedlyhastily, impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklesslyexactly, opportunely, punctually, seasonably

at once, in no time, off the bat, on a dime, on the double, on the spot

slowlylate, tardily

plumbverb

to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted lineplumbed the bay to make sure it was deep enough for the ship

fathom, sound

gauge(also gage), scale, spanremeasure, replumb

adj.vertical, perpendicular, plumb mean being at right angles to a base line.vertical suggests a line or direction rising straight upward toward a zenith.the side of the cliff is almost verticalperpendicular may stress the straightness of a line making a right angle with any other line, not necessarily a horizontal one.the parallel bars are perpendicular to the support postsplumb stresses an exact verticality determined (as with a plumb line) by earth's gravity.make sure that the wall is plumb

in the 14th century

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