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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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 Samuel Johnson
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
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 James Smith
Much less shall the said Cone swim, 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
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
Cold waves, immerged, the glowing mass congeal, And turn to adamant the hissing Steel.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
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 Alexander Leighton
A saint in heaven, says Bossuet, is a being who is scarcely sensible of himself, so completely is he possessed by God and immerged in His glory....
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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
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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