plummets
Takes steep dive
Plummets is the third-person singular of plummet, meaning to fall straight down rapidly and dramatically.
Stock prices plummet, birds plummet from the sky, temperatures plummet overnight.
The word suggests not just decline but steep, sudden descent: The plane plummeted toward the ocean.
Plummets can also be a plural noun for lead weights used in fishing or surveying.
Sudden violent impact
- collapseSudden structural failure
- declineDecrease or refuse
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- downturnEconomic decline period
slump · freefall · nosedive · tank · depreciation · devaluation · contraction · selloff
crash
Sudden violent impact
downturn · slump · freefall · nosedive · tank · depreciation · devaluation · contraction · selloff · correction
fall
Descend under gravity
hurtle · tumble · cascade · pitch · swoop · sink · career · barrel · careen · streak
sink
Basin with drain
- deteriorateGrow worse over time
- worsenBecome more severe
- tankLarge storage vessel
crater · spiral · tailspin · collapse · flag · wane · falter · slump · dwindle · erode
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, bronze sculptures, antiquities, Roman coin
- comes downfalls, drops, descends, sinks, lowers
- falls offdrops, tumbles, slips, detaches, topples
plummetsstabilizes
Makes firm or steady
steadies · holds steady · plateaus · levels off · drifts