ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

308. Depression -- N. lowering &c v.; depression; dip &c (concavity) 252; abasement;
detrusion † ; reduction.
overthrow, overset † , overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation.
bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion † , genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.
V. depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop,
let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude † , pitch, precipitate.
overthrow, overturn, overset † ; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take
down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew
down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground † ; trample in the dust, pull about one's
ears.
sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip,
kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline &c (be
horizontal) 213.
Adj. depressed &c v.; at a low ebb; prostrate &c (horizontal) 213; detrusive † .
Phr. facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lat.] [Lucan].
309. Leap -- N. leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation † .
ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade † , gambado † ; capriole, demivolt † ; buck, buck
jump; hop skip and jump; falcade † .
kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper † ; wallaby.
V. leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip,
skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start;
frisk &c (amusement) 840; jump about &c (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic
toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.
Adj. leaping &c v.; saltatory † , frisky.
Adv. on the light fantastic toe.
Phr. di salto in salto [It].
310. Plunge -- N. plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking &c v.; diver.
V. plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge;
bathe &c (water) 337.
submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom.
get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon;
founder, welter, wallow.
311. [Curvilinear motion.] Circuition -- N. circuition † , circulation; turn, curvet;
excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation; northwest passage;
circuit &c 629.
turning &c v.; wrench; evolution; coil, corkscrew.
V. turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right about, turn round to
the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle, make a complete circle, describe a
circle, describe a complete circle; go through 180 degrees, go through 360 degrees, pass
through 180 degrees, pass through 360 degrees.
circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent; put a girdle round about the earth
[M.N.D.]; go the round, make the round of.