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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Much less shall the said Cone swim, if one immerge a part thereof.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo
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
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
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
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
Mariti asserts that it produces none, and even that those which are carried into it by the rapidity of the Jordan perish almost immediately upon being immerged in its acrid waves.
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael
Along the edge of the swamp numbers of English could be seen, some half immerged, some fast disappearing.
From Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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 Schroeder, John Frederick
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
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
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
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
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