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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immerse
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪ Instruments All instruments should be immersed in either a suitable disinfectant or minimum 5 percent formaldehyde solution as soon as treatment has been completed.
▪ Every garden is really a small slice of the larger biosphere we all are immersed in.
▪ Filters: Brush off loose debris, immerse in very hot alkali degreaser solution and leave for some hours.
■ NOUN
water
▪ Why do people take so much pleasure in immersing themselves in warm water?
▪ The curd is immersed in hot water or whey and worked, stretched, and molded while plastic.
▪ Priests were immersing themselves in water.
work
▪ He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest.
▪ Caught up in the moment, he was clearly and completely immersed in his work.
▪ Most days when it is severe, I simply get up and immerse myself in work.
▪ In autonomous and auratic art, reception by contrast is individualized and the audience is typically immersed in the work itself.
▪ Making no attempt to build a survey collection, they immersed themselves in the work of a few artists.
▪ He immersed himself in his work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A gurgling burn looms before you and in its cool streams you immerse your weary feet.
▪ Cora J.. Rupp has spent her life immersed in art and wishes more of us would jump into the pool.
▪ He was immersed in her words, lost in her ability to be straight.
▪ Impossible to do immersed in society, but almost easy here.
▪ One is immersed in the Spirit.
▪ They visited pubs all over the country, immersing themselves in pub culture - playing darts and drinking with the lads.
▪ We are immersed in making things.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immerse

Immerse \Im*merse"\, a. [L. immersus, p. p. of immergere. See Immerge.] Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] ``Things immerse in matter.''
--Bacon.

Immerse

Immerse \Im*merse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immersed; p. pr. & vb. n. Immersing.]

  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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immerse

early 15c. (implied in immersed), from Latin immersus, past participle of immergere "to plunge in, dip into" (see immersion). Related: Immersed; immersing; immersive.

Wiktionary
immerse
  1. (context obsolete English) Immersed; buried; sunk. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk. 2 (context transitive English) To involve deeply 3 (context mathematics English) (rfdef: English)

WordNet
immerse
  1. v. thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in hot water" [syn: plunge]

  2. engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his studies" [syn: steep, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up]

  3. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" [syn: swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up]

  4. cause to be immersed; "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text" [syn: plunge]

Usage examples of "immerse".

Manner of performing the experiments--Action of distilled water in comparison with the solutions--Carbonate of ammonia, absorbed by the roots--The vapour absorbed by the glands--Drops on the disc--Minute drops applied to separate glands--Leaves immersed in weak solutions--Minuteness of the doses which induce aggregation of the protoplasm--Nitrate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Phosphate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Other salts of ammonia--Summary and concluding remarks on the action of salts of ammonia.

Even those whom we would normally think of as accelerating may claim to be at rest, since they can attribute the force they feel to their being immersed in a gravitational field.

Raw meat is too powerful a stimulant, and even small bits generally injure, and sometimes kill, the leaves to which they are given: the aggregated masses of protoplasm become dingy or almost colourless, and present an unusual granular appearance, as is likewise the case with leaves which have been immersed in a very strong solution of carbonate of ammonia.

We have seen that leaves immersed for some hours in dense solutions of sugar, gum, and starch, have the contents of their cells greatly aggregated, and are rendered more or less flaccid, with the tentacles irregularly contorted.

After numberless trials with fresh leaves immersed in a solution of this strength, I have never seen the aggregating action transmitted at nearly so slow a rate.

Lulled by the sound of distant trains passing in the night, immersed in a familiar ambience, I slept as well as I had in years.

To make pyroxyle, the cotton must be immersed in the fuming azotic acid for a quarter of an hour, then washed in cold water and dried.

In the far East the calamus is still used, the best being gathered in the month of March, near Aurac, on the Persian Gulf, and still prepared after the old method of immersing them for about six months in fermenting manure which coats them with a sort of dark varnish and the darker their color the more they are prized.

Perhaps immersing herself in her water-colors would help take her mind off Croft Falconer.

After returning to America, his father taught history at City College of New York, specializing in Iberia and its colonies, and Diffie had grown up immersed in the academic, left-wing politics of New York City in the fifties and early sixties.

The author exhibited a series of eighteen inks which had either been made with metallic iron or with which metallic iron had been immersed, and directed attention to the fact that though the depth and body of color seemed to be deepened, yet in every case the durability of writings made with such inks was so impaired that they became brown and faded in a few months.

Verily, Thy servant, humble before the majesty of Thy divine supremacy, lowly at the door of Thy oneness, hath believed in Thee and in Thy verses, hath testified to Thy word, hath been enkindled with the fire of Thy love, hath been immersed in the depths of the ocean of Thy knowledge, hath been attracted by Thy breezes, hath relied upon Thee, hath turned his face unto Thee, hath offered his supplications to Thee, and hath been assured of Thy pardon and forgiveness.

None of the electric deep fryers had accurate thermostats, but all worked tolerably well when a frying thermometer was immersed in the oil and a sharp eye was kept on the temperature.

Finding his brother immersed in his studies, and his sisters in frills and furbelows, Felix sought amusement on his own account.

Even Gamelan found it politically expedient to withdraw to his retreat beyond the city, there to immerse himself in the wisdom of the Other Worlds before making a statement on the terrible events.