Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To submerge or disappear in or as if in a liquid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To plunge into or under anything, especially into a fluid; immerse.
- To disappear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun, or the moon into the shadow of the earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See
immerse . - intransitive verb rare To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
disappear by entering into anymedium , as a star into the light of the sun.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When we have yet to immerge from a recession (at least in terms of the labor market recession, which is the only one that friggin matters), it is the PERFECT time to run deficits.
Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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She willed a tendril to immerge from it and elongate toward the stage.
365 tomorrows » The Assassin : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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She willed a tendril to immerge from it and elongate toward the stage.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Acting should be about exactly that, the ability to portray people and immerge yourself into a character to get a story across to the rest of the world.
Harrison Ford Earned Almost 2.5 Times More Than The Top Earning Actress in 2008 | /Film 2009
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New ideas immerge not only in poetics, but in every field of thought.
Avant Lyric, a few observations toward an essay, part one Lemon Hound 2008
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And they immerge in their luxurious lifestyle … in the country club.
Think Progress » Breaking: Bush To Unveil “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” Tommorow 2005
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You may immerge it, replied he, into the ocean, and it will stand.
32. The Wig. Paris 1917
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Thus, by a kind of sacred procedure, I immerge myself into those old stones and recreate my peculiar Roman mood.
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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No longer is the voice of Davis heard in the crowd of merry youth; no longer is the voice of music heard from the hands of the rudy youth; no longer was the secret places of revelry cheered by his presence; or his associates prompt by his example to immerge any further in the way to death!
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Hereto was he born, to deliver the thought of his heart from the universe to the universe, to do an office which nature could not forego, nor he be discharged from rendering, and then immerge again into the holy silence and eternity out of which as a man he arose.
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