plunge
verb (used with object)
to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge.
replunge
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a word derived from
plunge.
Example Sentences
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Why, he asks, do you replunge us into the night of hypotheses, justifying the Cartesians and their three elements and their vortices?
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John
She knew that she must read them all over again, and thus replunge into coverts of memory whose very charm and fragrance would deepen her despair.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
In days when men acted by ecclesiastical rules these prejudices produced waste of capital, and helped mightily to replunge Europe into barbarism.
From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by Sumner, William Graham
He justly derides the absurd reverence for antiquity, which could only tend to discourage the improvements of art, and to replunge the human race into their original barbarism.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Milman, Henry Hart
He stirs the stagnant soul, that man may replunge into his native self, and rise redeemed.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
