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demersed

demersed is the simple past and past participle of demerse.

Meaning of demerse

Verb

demerse (third-person singular simple present demerses, present participle demersing, simple past and past participle demersed)

  1. (also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To immerse, to submerge (something).
    • The peach, vvhich hitherto vvas demerſed, now mounted up to the upper part of the liquor in the ſecond receiver; all the reſt ſtaid in the bottom.1682, Robert Boyle, “A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The Second Part. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert...

Adjective

demersed (not comparable)

  1. Situated or growing or constantly under water.
    Synonyms:
    submerse

Synonyms of demersed

Origin of demersed

From Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. Botanical sense coined by botanist Thomas Martyn in the 1790s.

Questions about demersed

What does demersed mean?
Demersed means situated or growing or constantly under water.
What is demersed the simple past and past participle of?
Demersed is the simple past and past participle of demerse.
What part of speech is demersed?
Demersed is an adjective.

Words near demersed in the dictionary

  1. Demers
  2. demersal
  3. demersally
  4. demersals
  5. demerse
  6. demersed
  7. demerses
  8. demersing
  9. demersion
  10. demersions
  11. demes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: demersed (page history and authors); demerse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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