immerse
UK/ɪˈmɜːs//ɪˈmɜɹs/
immerse verb: to place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
Verb
immerse (third-person singular simple present immerses, present participle immersing, simple past and past participle immersed)
- To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
- Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
- ... the two plates of platinum immersed in oxygen and hydrogen gases1883, The Electrical Journal, page 501
- Synonyms:
- submerge
- To involve or engage deeply.
- The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
- To map into an immersion.
- Thus, in mathematical terms a Klein bottle cannot be "embedded" but only "immersed" in three dimensions as an embedding has no self-intersections but an immersion may have them.2002, Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture, page 40
Adjective
immerse (comparative more immerse, superlative most immerse)
- Immersed; buried; sunk.
- After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
immerse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
immerse in Hindi
- to put under the surface of a liquid
- डुबाना ḍubānā
immerse in Tamil
- அமிழ், அமிழ்த்து, மூழ்கடி, மூழ்கு, மூழ்குவி, மூழ்கவை
immerse in Urdu
- to put under the surface of a liquid
- ڈُبانا ḍubānā
immerse in Bengali
- নিমজ্জিত করা, ডুবিয়ে দেওয়া, গভীরভাবে নিবিষ্ট করা
More languagesFewer languages
- immerse in Telugu
- ముంచు muñcu
- immerse in Malayalam
- മുക്കുക mukkuka, മുഴുകുക muḻukuka
- immerse in Kannada
- ಅದ್ದು, ಆಳು, ಮುಳುಗು, ಮುಳುಗಿಸು
- immerse in Assamese
- মজা moza
- immerse in Indonesian
- menenggelamkan
- immerse in Vietnamese
- nhúng
Examples of immerse in a sentence
- Even after the process of germination has taken place, if the young plant be immersed in an atmosphere of either of those gases [hydrogen and nitrogen], vegetation and life will immediately cease.1841, William Rhind, A history of the vegetable kingdom, page 110:
- The buoyant force of the atmospheric air on solids and liquids immersed in it is for most purposes negligible compared to the weight of solid or liquid, ...1955, George Shortley, Dudley Williams, Elements of Physics for Students of Science and Engineering:
Synonyms of immerse
Forms of immerse
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | immerses |
| present participle | immersing |
| past participle | immersed |
| past | immersed |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more immerse |
| superlative | most immerse |
Origin of immerse
Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.
Words formed from immerse
Words that rhyme with immerse
36 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- purse
- worse
- -verse
- coerce
- converse
- excurse
- multiverse
- obverse
- terce
- terse
- amerce
- asperse
- herse
- neurodiverse
- perse
- reimburse
- transverse
- a blessing and a curse
- absterse
- accurse
- costotransverse
- demerse
- disburse
- Erse
- intertransverse
- megadiverse
- murse
- nontransverse
- pretransverse
- public purse
- recurse
- renverse
- sperse
- submerse
- subtransverse
- thurse
Questions about immerse
- What does immerse mean?
- Immerse means to place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
- What is immerse in Hindi?
- Immerse in Hindi is डुबाना (ḍubānā). See Immerse meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use immerse in a sentence?
- Even after the process of germination has taken place, if the young plant be immersed in an atmosphere of either of those gases [hydrogen and nitrogen], vegetation and life will immediately cease.
- What part of speech is immerse?
- Immerse can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce immerse?
- Immerse is pronounced /ɪˈmɜːs/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of immerse?
- The past tense of immerse is immersed.
Words near immerse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: immerse (page history and authors); immerse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Immerse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immerse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মজা (Assamese) (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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