implunge

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English

Alternative forms

emplunge

Etymology

From im- +‎ plunge.

Verb

implunge (third-person singular simple present implunges, present participle implunging, simple past and past participle implunged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To plunge (something into something else).
    • c. 1614, Daniel Dyke, Two Treatises:
      [] implunging our ſelues into the gulfe of our ſinne
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Pilgrimes Arrivall at Constantinople, Entertainment, and Departure”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge , →OCLC, book I, pages 22–23:
      e [] by his overcarefulneſſe and cauſeleſſe ſuſpicion, deprived himſelf of this benefit, and implunged himſelf in much juſt hatred for his unjuſt dealing and treachery.

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