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plumb

English

  1. 🔊 exactly vertical
    “the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb”
  2. 🔊 the metal bob of a plumb line
  3. 🔊 exactly
    “fell plumb in the middle of the puddle”
  4. 🔊 conforming to the direction of a plumb line
  5. 🔊 completely
    “clean forgot the appointment”
  6. 🔊 adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
  7. 🔊 examine thoroughly and in great depth
  8. 🔊 measure the depth of something
  9. 🔊 weight with lead

Spanish

  1. 🔊 aplomar to plumb
  2. 🔊 sondear to plumb, to explore (e.g. the depths of)
  3. 🔊 sondear to plumb, to fathom (to measure something's depth)

Similar words

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