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 (something) into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to immerse, to dip.
   • 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, new edition, volume I, London: […] [A. Strahan] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], 1817, →OCLC, 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, “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, […]

2. (intransitive) To disappear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.
3. Misspelling of emerge.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• gemmier, gremmie

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