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PLUMB THE DEPTHS OF SMTH.

to reach a very unhappy or bad point (1); to study or examine smth. or someone in a lot of detail (2)
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1. Roy plumbed the depths of despair when his wife left him.
2. The journalist attempted to plumb the depths of the secretive vice president.


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