IMMERSE

a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

To baptize by immersion.

4.
v.

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.


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