immerge

American  

[ih-murj] / ɪˈmɜrdʒ /

verb (used without object)

immerged, immerging

1. to plunge, as into a fluid.

2. to disappear by entering into any medium, as the moon into the shadow of the sun.

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verb (used with object)

immerged, immerging

1. Archaic. to immerse.

immerge British  

/ ɪˈmɜːdʒ /

verb

1. an archaic word for immerse

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Other Word Forms

• immergence noun
• unimmerged adjective

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

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 Smith, James

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 Galilei, Galileo

Much less shall the said Cone swim, if one immerge a part thereof.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo

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 Johnson, Samuel

We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes