unplunge

English

Etymology

un- +‎ plunge

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.
   • 1931, Walter Carruthers Sellar, Robert Julian Yeatman, 1066 and All That: And Now All This, page 107:

     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, […]

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

     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.