immerge

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See also: immergé

English

Etymology

Latin immergō. Compare immerse

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈmɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/

Verb

immerge (third-person singular simple present immerges, present participle immerging, simple past and past participle immerged)

  1. (transitive) To plunge (something) into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to immerse, to dip.
    • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon XVI. Part II.”, in Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, ; republished in Discourses on Various Subjects, new edition, volume I, London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, , 1817, →OCLC, page 297:
      heir heads [i.e., of people who drink excessively] are gross, their souls are immerged in matter, and drowned in the moistures of an unwholesome cloud; []
    • 1664, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XXXIX”, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. , 2nd edition, London: Henry Herringman , published 1670, →OCLC, part III (Containing Promiscuous Experiments about Colours), annotation, page 296:
      VVe took about a Glaſs-full of luke-vvarm VVater, and in it immerg'd a quantity of the Leaves of Senna, and preſently upon the Immerſion there did not appear any Redneſs in the VVater, []
    • 1815, anonymous author, The Observant Pedestrian Mounted, volume 3:
      “Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.”
  2. (intransitive) To disappear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.
  3. Misspelling of emerge.

Anagrams

French

Verb

immerge

  1. inflection of immerger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

immerge

  1. third-person singular present indicative of immergere

Latin

Verb

immerge

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of immergō