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
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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
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
Much less shall the said Cone swim, if one immerge a part thereof.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
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 William Holmes McGuffey
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 William Michael Rossetti
An old term for a long pole used by the barge-men on our east coast; it is capped to prevent the immerged end from sticking in the mud.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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 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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