D defs.my
Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Immerse

/ĭmˌ-ẽrs'/ · Im·merse · IPA /ɪˈmɝs/
01 a. Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
  1. 1.
    Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.[Obs.]
02 v. t. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.
imp. & p. p. Immersed; p. pr. & vb. n. Immersing
  1. 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. 2.
    To baptize by immersion.
  3. 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.