ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unplumb

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Unplumb is a verb meaning (transitive) To remove the lead from.

Meaning

(transitive) To remove the lead from.

More Meanings

  1. Not plumb or vertical.

Example Sentences

If the Independents of those times did not, as Mr. Burke says, “Unplumb the dead to cast bullets to fire at the living,” it appears that their rapacity and avarice, stimulated by the same ideas, induced them to lead the way to the same object; […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unfathomed, deep, profound, childishness, delead, unplank.

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