implunge

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verb

To plunge (something into something else).

Scrabble 13

Meanings

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

present singular third person implunges · participle present implunging · participle past implunged · past implunged

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo plunge (something into something else).

    […]implunging our ſelues into the gulfe of our ſinne

    c. 1614, Daniel Dyke, Two Treatises
    1 more example

    [H]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.

    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 [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book I, pages 22–23

Origin

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