emerge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb come out into view, as from concealment
    • Suddenly, the proprietor emerged from his office
  2. verb come out of
    egress; go forth; issue; come out; come forth.
    • Water issued from the hole in the wall
    • The words seemed to come out by themselves
  3. verb become known or apparent
    • Some nice results emerged from the study
  4. verb come up to the surface of or rise
    • He felt new emotions emerge
  5. verb happen or occur as a result of something
    come forth.

WordNet

E*merge" intransitive verb
Etymology
L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Emerged ; present participle & verbal noun Emerging
Definitions
  1. To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden.
    Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke.

Webster 1913