plumb

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adj性质的同根词
plumbous：铅的。
n性质的同根词
plumber：水管工；堵漏人员。
plumbing：铅工业；铅管品制造。
plumbery：铅工业；管工车间。
plumbism：[内科]铅中毒。
v性质的同根词
plumbing：探究；垂直悬挂；用铅锤测量；灌铅以增重（plumb的现在分词）。

The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.
宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。
She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
她学会了自己给房子拉接电线、敷设水管。
She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions.
她从未放弃过探究我内心深处情感的尝试。
This thing has plumb worn me out.
这件事让我筋疲力尽。
The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.
宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。

(WATER) to supply a building or a device with water pipes, or to connect a building or a device to a water pipe
(DEEP) to measure how deep something is, especially water
(EXACTLY) exactly
(COMPLETELY) completely
exactly straight, usually describing a vertical surface or line

If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it.
When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.
If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
If you say that something plumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.