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, […]

   • 1815, anonymous author, The Observant Pedestrian Mounted‎^[1], 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

• 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