immerse

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   devote oneself fully to

   The law students immersed themselves into their studies, foregoing extracurricular activities.

2. 2
   verb

   To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).

   Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.

3. 3
   verb

   To involve or engage deeply.

   The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   Immersed; buried; sunk.

   After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.

6. 6
   verb

   cause to be immersed

7. 7
   verb

   thrust or throw into

8. 8
   verb

   enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.