The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immerse \Im*merse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immersed; p. pr. & vb. n. Immersing.]
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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. To baptize by immersion.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of immerse English)
Usage examples of "immersing".
My experiments were made by placing halfminim drops on the discs of leaves, or, more commonly, by immersing them in the solutions.
Most of the experiments were made by immersing the glands either in an infusion of raw meat or more commonly in a solution of carbonate of ammonia, as this latter substance acts so powerfully and rapidly on protoplasm.
The valve fits so closely, judging from the result of immersing uninjured bladders in various solutions, that it is doubtful whether any putrid fluid habitually passes outwards.
Under pretense of making certain of their privacy, which was in doubt given the leafless state of the trees separating them from the rest of the palace grounds, he hesitated for several long minutes before immersing his bare body in what had to be ice-cold water.
She would be gone for weeks, if not months, immersing herself in the gukuy culture and language.
She dealt with it by monomaniacally immersing herself in the language and culture of the gukuy pilgrims.