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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To bring about this replunge into Nirvana is the goal of the world process.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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 John Morley
The Freethinkers "striving to replunge the world into the depths of barbarism!"
From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Allen Pringle
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 Edgar Fawcett
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 William Graham Sumner
