Immerse

Quick meaning: Immerse is a verb meaning (transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).

Meaning

(transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To involve or engage deeply.
2. (transitive, mathematics) To map into an immersion.
3. (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

Example Sentences

The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.

... the two plates of platinum immersed in oxygen and hydrogen gases

Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.

After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.

Word Forms

• immerses
• immersing
• immersed

Synonyms for immerse

Depending on context, synonyms include submerge, absorb, plunge, engulf, engross, bury.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plunge, engulf, absorb, bury, steep, swallow.

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