unplunge

present singular third person unplunges · participle present unplunging · participle past unplunged · past unplunged

1. intransitiveTo plunge back out of something; to emerge suddenly.

   The crucial image for Cocteau's oeuvre of the poet unplunging out of the mirror in Le sang d'un poète (1930) has its origins in this very poem.

   2013, Christophe Wall-Romana, Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry

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   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