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Meaning of unplumb | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To remove the lead from.

transitive

Examples

“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; […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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