immerge

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 into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to dip; to immerse.
    • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon XVI. [The House of Feasting; or, The Epicure’s Measures.] Part II.”, in Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]; republished in Discourses on Various Subjects, volume I, new edition, London: […] [A. Strahan] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], 1817, OCLC 4172765, page 297:
      [T]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, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
      We took […] lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna.
  2. (intransitive) To disappear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for immerge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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
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