immerge

Verb

immerge (third-person singular simple present immerges, present participle immerging, simple past and past participle immerged)

1. (transitive) To plunge (something) into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to immerse, to dip.
   • [T]heir heads [i.e., of people who drink excessively] are gross, their souls are immerged in matter, and drowned in the moistures of an unwholesome cloud; […]1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon XVI. [The House of Feasting; or, The Epicure’s Measures.] Part II.”, in Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]; republished in...
   • VVe took about a Glaſs-full of luke-vvarm VVater, and in it immerg'd a quantity of the Leaves of Senna, and preſently upon the Immerſion there did not appear any Redneſs in the VVater, […]1664, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XXXIX”, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part III (Containing Promiscuous Experiments about Colours)...
2. (intransitive) To disappear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.