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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Immerse \Im*merse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Immersed}; p. pr &
vb n. {Immersing}.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Immersed \Im*mersed"\, p. p. & a.
1. Deeply plunged into anything especially a fluid.
2. Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
3. (Bot.) Growing wholly under water. --Gray.
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