Immerse

Definition: Immerse

Immerse

Verb

1. Thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in the hot water".

2. Engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his studies".

3. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter".

4. Cause to be immersed; "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "immerse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Immerse

Insertion

Imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak; (water); dip, plunge.

Plunge

Submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom.

Water

Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.

Crosswords: Immerse

Music

• Live: Do Not Immerse (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Health

For relief, persons will immerse the affected skin into water. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "immerse": immerse oneself. Additional references.

Ending with "immerse": re-immerse.

Albanian

zhyt (dip, dive, plunge, steepen, submerge), zhys (dip, dive, plunge, submerge), thith (absorb, draw, draw down, drink, imbibe, inhale, nipple, pull at, snuff, soak, soak up, sop, suck, suck in, take up), ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), ‏غطس (dip, dive, douse, duck, immersion, plunge, plunk, sink, submerge), ‏عمد (baptize, betake, christen, premeditated). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увличам се, заравям (dig in, earth, earth up, embed, imbed, inearth, inhume, inter, mould, plunge), затъвам (bog, embed oneself, sink, subside), затрупвам (encumber, overwhelm), задълбочавам се (delve, dive, pore), бивам погълнат, потопявам (inundate, send down, sink, sop, submerge, submerse, swamp, wreck). (various references)

Chinese 

沉浸 (permeate), 沉 (deep, profound, sink, submerge, to drop, to lower), 浸没 (Immersed, Immersing, immersion), 浸 (soak, steep), 寖 (soak). (various references)

Czech

ponořit se (delve, dip, dive, duck, plunge, submerge), pohroužit. (various references)

Dutch

onderdompelen (drown), indompelen (dip, soak). (various references)

Esperanto

trempi (dip, soak), mergi. (various references)

Faeroese

dyppa (dip, soak), drepa (butcher, dip, kill, liquidate, slaughter, slay, soak). (various references)

Farsi 

فروبردن (Absorb, Aspire, Devour, Gulp, Imbibe, Plunge, Ram, Swallow), پوشاندن (Apparel, Blanket, Camouflage, Case, Clothe, Coat, Cover, Emboss, Envelop, Jacket, Line, Mask, Overcast, Sheath, Sheathe, Shroud, Submerge, Suffuse, Veil), غوطه دادن (Dip, Dunk, Soak), زیراب کردن (Submerge). (various references)

Finnish

upottaa (dip, inlay, sink), kastaa (baptize, christen, dip, water, wet). (various references)

French

immerger. (various references)

German

tauchen (appear, dip, disappear, dive, diving, duck, duck under, emerge, plunge, sink, skin diving, skin-dive, soak, stay under water, submerge, to dip (in, to dive), eintauchen (dip, dip into, dive, dive in, Dunk, immersion, plunge, sink, soak, souse, steep, to dip (in, to souse). (various references)

Greek 

βουτώ (dip, dive, douse, duck, pick pockets, pinch, plunge, sop, steal, steep, submerge, submerse, take a dive). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרות (drench, saturate, soak, sop, souse, steep), להטביל (dip, douse, sop), לטבול (bathe, dip, duck, sink). (various references)

Hungarian

elmerül (dive, go under, merge, submerge, to dip, to founder, to merge, to settle down, to slump, to submerge), bemerít (dived, dove, to dip, to dive, to merge, to souse), alámerít (plunge, submerge, to plunge, to souse). (various references)

Indonesian

menyelam (dive, diving, duck, submerge), mencelup, membenamkan (drown, scuttle, sink, suppress). (various references)

Italian

immergere (dip, dive, give oneself up, immerse oneself, plunge, soak, souse, steep, submerge). (various references)

Korean 

가라앉히십시요. (various references)

Manx

thummey (dip, dive, douse, duck; diving, ducking, immersion, lunge, pitch, plunge, soak, sop, steep, steeping, submerge, submersion). (various references)

Norwegian

senke (lower), dyppe (dip). (various references)

Pig Latin

immerseay.(various references)

Portuguese

imergir (drown, lade, merge, plunge, soak, submerge). (various references)

Romanian

vârî (Bob, creep, crib, dab, dig, dip, drive, duck, engraft in, impress, introduce, involve, jab, Lodge, pick, poke, pull up, put in, stab, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), cufunda (Bury, dip, plunge, sink, steep, submerge), boteza (baptize, call, christen, christianize, dip, doctor, godfather, name, sprinkle, surname, water, wet), bãga (Bob, drive, impress, insert, interject, introduce, intrude, invest, involve, jab, land, Lodge, put in, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), afunda (deepen, depress, dip, disappear, dissolve, dive, drench, duck, sink, soak, submerge), înmuia (dabble, dip, drench, mellow, melt, poach, relent, ret, soak, soften, steep, unbend), îngropa (bury, dig in, dig into, entomb, inhume, inter, pit, scrap), îngloda. (various references)

Russian 

погружать (dip, douse, sank, sink, soused, souses, submerge). (various references)

Scottish

tum (dip, duck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaroniti (dive, sink, submerge, submerse), zadubiti, utonuti, uroniti (dive, merge, plunge, submerse), umočiti (dip, sop), potopiti (dip, sink, sluice, soak, submerge, submerse), gnjurati (plunge). (various references)

Spanish

sumergir (engulf, plunge, submerge, swamp). (various references)

Swedish

sänka ner (dip, let down). (various references)

Thai

หมกมุ่น (lose), จุ่ม (dip, dip in, dunk in, soak). (various references)

Turkish

suya daldırmak (souse), sokmak (bite, dig into, drag, drive, engraft, enter, implicate, ingraft, inject, insert, instil, instill, involve, land, let in, pitchfork, poke, put, put in, ram, send, sink into, slide in, spatchcock, stick, sting, strike, take into, thrust, tuck, tuck in, work up), gömmek (Bury, commit to the ground, dig in, embed, entomb, inhume, inter, intomb, lay to rest, let in, sink, sink into), daldırmak (Bury, dip, Dunk, layer, plunge, submerge), batırmak (bankrupt, break, bring to ruin, dip, jab, plunge, prickle, ruin, sink, stick, submerge, swamp). (various references)

Turkmen 

зьmdьrmek (put inside, stick into). (various references)

Ukrainian

хрестити (baptize, christen), загрузати (wallow), занурювати (dip, douse, dowse, drown, duck, enwrap, plunge, steep), поглинати (absorb, canker, consume, devour, eat away, engulf, gulf, lap up, merge, mop up, occupy, overwhelm, suck in, swallow). (various references)

Welsh

trochi (dip, plunge, soil). (various references)

baptizabantur, baptizabat, baptizabimini, baptizabit, baptizans, baptizantes, baptizantur, baptizare, baptizarentur, baptizaret, baptizaretur, baptizari, baptizas, baptizat, baptizata, baptizati, baptizato, baptizatur, baptizatus, baptizavi, baptizavit, baptizentur, baptizetur, baptizo, baptizor, mergere, mergeretur, merserint. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "immerse": immersed, immerses. (additional references)

Words ending with "immerse": reimmerse. (additional references)

Words containing "immerse": reimmersed, reimmerses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Immerse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emerse, emmerse, imars, imerse, immemse, immerce, Imreie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: emmers, mimers, remise, simmer.

-2 letters: emirs, emmer, memes, meres, mimer, mimes, mires, miser, rimes, siree.

-3 letters: emes, emir, ires, meme, mems, mere, mime, mire, mirs, mise, rees, reis, rems, rime, rims, rise, seem, seer, seme, semi, sere, sire.

-4 letters: eme, ems, ere, ers, ire, ism, mem, mim, mir, mis, ree, rei, rem, res, rim.

+1 letter: gremmies, immenser, immerges, immersed, immerses, memories, memorise, meristem, mesmeric, simmered, stemmier.

+2 letters: dismember, eremitism, extremism, hermetism, memorised, memorises, memorizes, meristems, mesmerise, mesmerism, mesmerist, mesmerize, mistermed, mummeries, reimmerse, shimmered, sommelier, summerier, summiteer, swimmeret, termtimes.

+3 letters: dismembers, dreamtimes, eremitisms, euhemerism, extremisms, flummeries, hermetisms, immersible, maumetries, membership, memorizers, merriments, mesmerised, mesmerises, mesmerisms, mesmerists, mesmerized, mesmerizer, mesmerizes, metamerism, micromeres, misnomered, osmeterium, reimmersed, reimmerses, remitments, sommeliers, stemmeries, summeriest, summerlike, summertime, summiteers, swimmerets, symmetries, symmetrize.