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immerses

immerses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of immerse.

Meaning of immerse

Verb

immerse (third-person singular simple present immerses, present participle immersing, simple past and past participle immersed)

  1. (transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
    • Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
    Synonyms:
    submerge
  2. (transitive) To involve or engage deeply.
    • The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
  3. (transitive) 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

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Questions about immerses

What is immerses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Immerses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of immerse.

Words near immerses in the dictionary

  1. immersed
  2. immersement
  3. immersements
  4. immerser
  5. immersers
  6. immerses
  7. immersibility
  8. immersible
  9. immersing
  10. immersion
  11. immersion blender

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Adapted from Wiktionary: immerses (page history and authors); immerse (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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