immerse Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb thrust or throw into
    plunge.
    • Immerse yourself in hot water
  2. verb devote (oneself) fully to
    plunge; absorb; soak up; engross; engulf; steep.
    • He immersed himself into his studies
  3. verb enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
    eat up; swallow; bury; swallow up.
    • The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
  4. verb cause to be immersed
    plunge.
    • The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text

WordNet

Im*merse" adjective
Etymology
L. immersus, p. p. of immergere. See Immerge.
Definitions
  1. Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. Obs. "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.
Im*merse" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Immersed ; present participle & verbal noun Immersing
Definitions
  1. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.
    Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave. J Warton.
    More than a mile immersed within the wood. Dryden.
  2. To baptize by immersion.
  3. To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.
    The queen immersed in such a trance. Tennyson.
    It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this. Atterbury.

Webster 1913