Difference between Engulf and Plunge

ENGULF vs PLUNGE: NOUN

A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
A steep and rapid fall
A brief swim in water
The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water.
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.
The act of plunging or submerging
A voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
A sudden and violent pitching forward of the body, and pitching up of the hind legs, as by an unruly horse
A sudden dive, leap, or dip into something: as, a plunge in the sea.
An immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
A sudden or dramatic decline.
A swim; a dip.
The act or an instance of plunging.
An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.

To dive, jump, or throw oneself.
To fall rapidly.
To devote oneself to or undertake an activity earnestly or wholeheartedly.
To enter or move headlong through something.
To slope steeply downward.
To move forward and downward violently.
To become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically.
To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place.
To cast suddenly, violently, or deeply into a given state or situation.
To use a plunger to try to unblock (a drain, for example).
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in. Also used figuratively.
Firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position.

To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust. Also used figuratively.
To baptize by immersion.
To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.

To swallow up in or as in a gulf or whirlpool; overwhelm by swallowing or submerging.
To cast into or as into a gulf.

Devote (oneself) fully to
To cast or thrust suddenly into water or some other fluid, or into some penetrable substance; immerse; thrust: as, to plunge one's hand into the water; to plunge a dagger into one's breast.
Figuratively, to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition, or action: as, plunged in grief; to plunge a nation into war.
To entangle or embarrass: used chiefly in the past participle.
To dive, leap, or rush (into water or some fluid).
To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state, or condition: as, to plunge into debt or into a controversy.
To throw the body forward and the hind legs up, as an unruly horse.
To descend precipitously or vertically, as a cliff.
To bet recklessly; gamble for large stakes; speculate.
In horticulture, to sink (a pot or box containing a plant) in the ground to the rim or edge. Pots of greenhouse plants are often plunged in the open in warm weather, both for the good of the plants and for their effect in ornamentation.
To turn over (the telescope of a surveyor's transit or theodolite) in a vertical plane, making the object-glass pass underneath. In transiting the telescope it may pass either above or below.
In geology, to dip under the surface: used in reference to such structural features as folds where, unless the axis is perfectly horizontal, one end pitches below the horizon or general surface.
(idiom) (take the plunge) To begin an unfamiliar venture, especially after hesitating.

Kiss, Cover, Burning, Push, Burn, Swamp, Affect, Encompass, Ignite, Overwhelm, Steep, Engross, Absorb, Plunge, Immerse

Nosedive, Tumble, Souse, Engross, Absorb, Dunk, Douse, Launch, Plunk, Immerse, Engulf, Dump, Steep, Dive, Dip

Ravage, Erupt, Dive, Kiss, Cover, Burning, Push, Burn, Swamp, Affect, Ignite, Overwhelm, Steep, Engross, Plunge

Decline, Slide, Nosedive, Tumble, Souse, Engross, Dunk, Douse, Launch, Plunk, Engulf, Dump, Steep, Dive, Dip

Dom was about to plunge into his back?
Garden and plunge pool in the Manor grounds.
Best Places to Plunge into Shopping in London.
We need not plunge into these troubled waters.
Relax and enjoy the usually uncrowded plunge pool.
Look no further than the current market plunge.
Secure desired router bit in collet, stand router upright hand plunge to approx desired depth lock plunge lock lever.
The Milescraft Rotary Tool Plunge Attachment converts your rotary tool into a mini plunge router.
To plunge the saw downward you depress the plunge trigger located at the top of the back handle.
The plunge base features a generously sized plunge lever, which was easy to lock and release, and the plunge action was smooth.