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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)
Origin: Immersed; Immersing.
(01 Mar 1998)
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