immerge
Americanverb (used without object)
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to plunge, as into a fluid.
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to disappear by entering into any medium, as the moon into the shadow of the sun.
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of immerge
First recorded in 1605–15, immerge is from the Latin word immergere to dip, plunge, sink into. See im- 1, merge
Example Sentences
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I say farther; that much lesse shall the said Cone stay afloat, if one immerge a part thereof.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
Of the probable and the marvellous, two parts of a vulgar epick poem, which immerge the critick in deep consideration, the Paradise Lost requires little to be said.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
Thus, by a kind of sacred procedure, I immerge myself into those old stones and recreate my peculiar Roman mood.
From Alone by Norman Douglas
Which you may see, comparing with the water as well the part that shall immerge as the other above water.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
Though tides of love around her rove, I fear she'll choose Pactolus - In that bright surge bards ne'er immerge.
From Rejected Addresses by James Smith
The more the Cone is immerged, the more impossible is its floating.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
Bahr Kûlla I conceive to be an immerged country, of considerable extent, similar to Wangara; for the name, which is Arabic, implies as much.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
The earth shall be immerged, and all things which are in it perish.
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
The patient is then thrice immerged in the sacred pool.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
It would have shaken off that lethargy in which the British soldiers had been immerged during the winter.
From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder
But he was now immerging into political controversy; for the year 1710 produced the Examiner, of which Swift wrote thirty-three papers.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
On immerging into the wood, for such it was, extending the whole downward way to Tintern, we all suddenly found ourselves deprived of sight; obscurity aggravated almost into pitchy darkness!
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
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