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Exit one's cocoon
Answer for the clue "Exit one's cocoon ", 6 letters:
emerge
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Word definitions for emerge in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Middle French émerger and directly from Latin emergere "bring forth, bring to light," intransitively "arise out or up, come forth, come up, come out, rise," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex- ) + mergere "to dip, sink" (see merge ). ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emerge \E*merge"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emerged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Emerging .] [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge .] To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; ...
Usage examples of emerge.
He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.
Paul sat with the pamphlet on the platform, he had been gazing absently at the stalled truck from which the men had emerged.
If it was possible to emerge from the field, it could only be done by an immediate switch to tachyonic drive without accelerative buildup .
She emerged from the oaks, expecting to see Acorn still frozen upon the riverbank.
The hillside, which had appeared to be one slope, was really a succession of undulations, so that the advancing infantry alternately dipped into shelter and emerged into a hail of bullets.
Then gradually three human faces and a ghostly shaped aerophane emerged out of nothingness.
She scrambled through the afterclap of her own wagon and, within a short while, emerged again.
Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.
And at length emerges the little aigrette of silver flowers, the ebony coiffure, the gray silk robe and mauve sash of Mademoiselle Jasmin, my fiancee!
Near the centre of the formation a zone of space the size of a quark warped to an alarming degree as its mass leapt towards infinity, and the first frigate emerged.
Calling this a castle is like calling a puddle on a privy floor a lake, Alayne thought, when the bucket was opened so they might emerge within the waycastle.
Finally it emerged that Albacore was also working on a Beddoes critical biog.
Then came another flash and a second man emerged before the administrator -- short, but with athletic shoulders, hair red as fire, albugo in one eye, a fang in his mouth .
On watch in the fir tree early the third afternoon, Alec saw Stamie emerge though the postern with a large basket on her back and set off into the woods.
To decipher, the clerk begins with the keyletter, runs in along the ciphertext alphabet until he strikes the cipher letter, then follows the column of letters upward until he emerges at the plaintext letter at the top.