immerse
Americanverb
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(often foll by in) to plunge or dip into liquid
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to involve deeply; engross
to immerse oneself in a problem
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to baptize by immersion
Related Words
See dip 1.
Other Word Forms
- immersible adjective
- reimmerse verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of immerse
First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin immersus “plunged, sunken into,” past participle of immergere “to dip, plunge, sink into”; immerge
Example Sentences
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He immersed himself in the natural world and befriended the pioneering German environmentalist, Alexander von Humboldt.
From Los Angeles Times
There, she and Silverblatt became immersed in a one-on-one discussion of Russian poetry.
From Los Angeles Times
Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China.
Too young to vote or drink, I became immersed in the idea that hormones and surgeries would fix me.
For Delta Slim, Lindo read books on the blues, listened to Son House, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and immersed himself in the culture of the Mississippi Delta.
From Los Angeles Times
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