replungen.
/(ˌ)riːˈplʌn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /riˈpləndʒ/ The action or an act of plunging again (in various senses of the verb).With quot. 2005 cf. to take the plunge at plunge n. 6a.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > diving into water > again
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1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies i. 6 Several sea-birds..dart down on it with such rapidity, as to make it their prey, before its re-plunge; so that it suffers a fatal persecution.
1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 138 Unless the trout with quick replunge Ruffle the glassy surface.
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air §39 The dolphins' arching rise and replunge.
1905 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 17 June 24/3 Their prognostications about London's replunge into matrimony are based on solid facts.
2005 Daily News of Los Angeles (Nexis) 24 July u4 Perkins took the replunge first in 2000, marrying cinematographer Julio Macata.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
replungev.
/(ˌ)riːˈplʌn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /riˈpləndʒ/ To plunge again or once more (in various senses). Frequently with into.
a. intransitive.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid
sinkOE
drench1297
drenklec1330
to go downa1475
replunge1611
submerge1652
swamp1795
to go under1820
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > act wrongly or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > fall or lapse > back again
relapse1563
replunge1611
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Riprofondare, to sinke againe, to replunge.
1707 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 2nd Pt. xiv. 270 Nations have left Barbarity to take up Civility, and again abandon'd Civility to replunge into Barbarity.
1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 22 545 Then [he] replunges for six days into the tainted atmosphere of the town in which he dwells.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vi. i. 4 She..instantly turned her head and replunged into her conversation.
1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 120 ‘I've given you the story,’ he said shortly, replunging into ‘Lara’.
1922 F. Schevill Hist. Balkan Penins. xxix. 463 Following its short truce of God Macedonia replunged with gusto into its familiar anarchy.
1980 Times 19 June 14/2 The lure begins to buzz like a living insect,..plunging to a depth of four metres, mounting again to the surface and then replunging.
2001 National Geographic Adventure Jan.–Feb. 47/2 Another swell tips the board, and my dogs replunge into the water like stabilizing pontoons.
b. transitive.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > plunge > again
replungea1618
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > plunge > again
replungea1618
reimmerge1664
a1618 J. Sylvester Funeral Elegie M. Wyts in G. de S. Du Bartas Divine Weekes & Workes (1621) 1168 To bee replung'd in Romish superstition.
1662 R. Boyle Def. Doctr. Spring of Air ii. 66 We found by replunging the Pipe into the Quicksilver, that the included Air had gain'd about half an eighth.
1721 E. Young Revenge v. ii Since thou hast replung'd me in my torture, I will be satisfy'd!
1751 tr. Female Foundling I. 103 Uneasiness seized me, and I was again replunged into Perplexity and Sorrow.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 252 She..dives again, and replunges the owl into the water.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. ii. 33 They replunged the nations over which they swept into barbarism.
1919 Musical Q. 5 169 Those who after much effort have gained an understanding of the work of a certain year, find themselves replunged the year following, into lack of comprehension by its new work.
1979 Evolution 33 441/1 As a snake worked its jaws over a struggling prey, elongated teeth would be plunged and re-plunged into the tissues.
2000 New Straits (Malaysia) Times (Nexis) 30 July 20 Replunge the exposed wick into the perfumed liquid in the bottle after a few days.
Derivatives
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1882 Daily News 7 Jan. 2/1 Signalling lore,..a language in which ‘back-locking’, ‘slotters’, and ‘replungers’ are important factors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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