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unplunge

verb

Etymology

From un- + plunge.

  1. derived from plongier
  2. derived from plungier
  3. inherited from plungen
  4. prefixed as unplunge — “un + plunge”

Definitions

  1. To plunge back out of something

    To plunge back out of something; to emerge suddenly.

    • After that he plunges into a dark-room to develop the picture, unplunges indefatigably into the sunlight to print it, enlarge it, reduce it, stick it in, unstick it, stick it in straight, unstick himself, […]
    • The crucial image for Cocteau's oeuvre of the poet unplunging out of the mirror in Le sang d'un poète (1930) has its origins in this very poem.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA