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Definition of Immerse

1. Verb. Thrust or throw into. "They immerse the object in the water"; "Immerse yourself in hot water"

2. Verb. Devote (oneself) fully to. "He immersed himself into his studies"

3. Verb. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing. "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

4. Verb. Cause to be immersed. "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text"

Definition of Immerse

1. a. Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

2. v. t. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.

Definition of Immerse

1. Verb. (transitive) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To involve deeply ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immerse

1. to plunge into a liquid [v -MERSED, -MERSING, -MERSES]

Medical Definition of Immerse

1. 1. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. "Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave." (J Warton) "More than a mile immersed within the wood." (Dryden) 2. To baptize by immersion. 3. To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm. "The queen immersed in such a trance." (Tennyson) "It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this." (Atterbury) Origin: Immersed; Immersing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immerse

immensities immensity immensive immensurability immensurable immensurate immerge immerged immerges immerging

immerit immerited immeritorious immeritous immersable immerse (current term) immersed immerses immersible immersing

immersion immersion bath immersion blender immersion blenders immersion foot immersion heater immersion lens immersion liquid immersion medium immersion objective

Literary usage of Immerse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Debate Between Rev. A. Campbell and Rev. N. L. Rice, on the Action by Alexander Campbell, Nathan Lewis Rice, Marcus Tullius Cicero Gould (1844)
"Parkhurst defines it: "To immerse in or wash with water in token of purification." Schleusner defines baptizo, not only to plunge, immerse, but to cleanse, ..."

2. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1909)
"This appears from the following considerations : A. The command to baptize is a command to immerse.—We show this : (a) Prom the meaning of the original word ..."

3. Outlines of Systematic Theology: Designed for the Use of Theological Students by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1908)
"That this is to immerse, ... Secondly,—every passage where the word occurs in the New Testament either requires or allows the meaning 'immerse. ..."

4. A Hand-book on Christian Baptism by Richard Ingham (1865)
"That the Latin and Greek express the idea of immerse in, by a similar phrase, ... But, as if to immerse in was a barbarism unknown in the English language, ..."

5. Chemical Experiments: Illustrating the Theory, Practice, and Application of by George William Francis (1850)
"In this state immerse the spoon in a jar of oxygen gas, and the metallic mercury will burn with a flame of a bright blue color. 503. Freezing of mercury. ..."

6. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"Cf. Norw. dus, a push, blow; M. Du. doesen, to strike, E. Fries, dessen, to strike. Dowse (2), to immerse; see Douse, Prob, the same as Dowse (i). Doxology. ..."

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