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verb

Immerse v. t. (past & past part. immersed; pres. part. immersing)

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." "More than a mile immersed within the wood."

To baptize by immersion.

To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm. "The queen immersed in such a trance." "It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this."

adjective

Immerse adj. Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. (Obs.) "Things immerse in matter."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and immerse tubes in a large jar containing water acidulated with 2 to 5 per cent. hydrochloric acid. Allow them to remain there for ...

— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... often very evident in improving the vasomotor tone. These children, however, will not stand well the abstraction of heat from their thin and chilly little bodies, so that it is a good plan before the colder douche to immerse the child in a hot bath and to return again to the bath momentarily afterwards. With these precautions children will often enjoy a cold spray, the temperature of which may be constantly lowered as they become used to it. Prolonged hot bathing has ...

— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron

... Imitate imiti. Imitation imito. Immaculate senmakula. Immaterial negrava. Immature nematura. Immediate tuja. Immediately tuj. Immense vasta. Immense (size) grandega. Immerge trempi. Immerse subakvigi. Immigrate enmigri. Immigrant enmigranto. Imminent minaca. Immobility senmoveco. Immoderate malmodera. Immodest nemodesta. Immolate oferbucxi. Immoral malbonmora. Immorality malbonmoreco. Immortal senmorta. Immortality senmorteco. ...

— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... efficiency. Nor is self-discussion the only exhibit of restlessness the American woman gives. To an unaccustomed observer she seems always to be running about on the face of things with no other purpose than to put in her time. He points to the triviality of the things in which she can immerse herself—her fantastic and ever-changing raiment, the welter of lectures and other culture schemes which she supports, the eagerness with which she transports herself to the ends of the earth—as marks of a spirit not at home ...

— The Business of Being a Woman • Ida M. Tarbell

... probably the most remarkable laundry soap ever manufactured. Immerse the garments in a tub, lightly rubbing the more soiled portions with the soap; leave them submerged in water from sunset to sunrise, and then the youngest baby can wash ...

— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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