Immerse Meaning
/ɪˈmɜːs/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
verbTo involve or engage deeply.
Sentence Examples
You need to immerse yourself into their culture to master their language.
I have to immerse myself in Berber.
How do you immerse yourself in the local culture?
CEFR Practice Quiz
To learn a language fast, you should ____ yourself in a country where it is spoken.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The best way to learn a new language is to ____ yourself in the local culture for several months.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"... the two plates of platinum immersed in oxygen and hydrogen gases"
— 1883, The Electrical Journal, page 501:
"Even after the process of germination has taken place, if the young plant be immersed in an atmosphere of either of those gases [hydrogen and nitrogen], vegetation and life will immediately cease."
— 1841, William Rhind, A history of the vegetable kingdom, page 110:
"The buoyant force of the atmospheric air on solids and liquids immersed in it is for most purposes negligible compared to the weight of solid or liquid, ..."
— 1955, George Shortley, Dudley Williams, Elements of Physics for Students of Science and Engineering:
"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."
— 2002, Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture, page 40:
"After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds."
— 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To learn a language fast, you should ____ yourself in a country where it is spoken.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The best way to learn a new language is to ____ yourself in the local culture for several months.