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 Galilei, Galileo
Much less shall the said Cone swim, if one immerge a part thereof.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo
Thus, by a kind of sacred procedure, I immerge myself into those old stones and recreate my peculiar Roman mood.
From Alone by Douglas, Norman
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
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
A.--Because it is not the vacuum which exerts this pressure, but the atmosphere, which, like a head of water, presses on everything immerged beneath it.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.
The boating party he had heard singing behind the point of the island, understanding that an accident had happened, advanced with long, rapid strokes of the oars, and rescued the immerged couple.
From Theresa Raquin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
The patient is then thrice immerged in the sacred pool; after the immersion he is bound hand and foot, and left for the night in a chapel which stands near.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack
The victim, now completely immerged in melancholy, progressed slowly onwards to Pettycur.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
Your breath falls around me like dew—your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears, I feel immerged from head to foot, Delicious—enough.
From Poems By Walt Whitman by Rossetti, William Michael
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 Johnson, Samuel
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 Cottle, Joseph
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