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unplunging

unplunging is the present participle and gerund of unplunge.

Meaning of unplunge

Verb

unplunge (third-person singular simple present unplunges, present participle unplunging, simple past and past participle unplunged)

  1. (intransitive) 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, […]1931, Walter Carruthers Sellar, Robert Julian Yeatman, 1066 and All That: And Now All This, page 107

Questions about unplunging

What is unplunging the present participle and gerund of?
Unplunging is the present participle and gerund of unplunge.

Words near unplunging in the dictionary

  1. unplump
  2. unplundered
  3. unplunge
  4. unplunged
  5. unplunges
  6. unplunging
  7. unpluralistic
  8. unpluralized
  9. unplutocratic
  10. unpneumatised
  11. unpneumatized

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