Thesaurus: emerge

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1. v. i. To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.
2. v. come out into view, as from concealment
3. v. come out of
4. v. become known or apparent
5. v. come up to the surface of or rise
6. v. happen or occur as a result of something
7. To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden. Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke.
8. To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in whichanything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue andappear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emergesfrom behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty orobscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden.Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classesof society. Burke.
9. v:100 v. come out into view, as from concealment v. become known or apparent v. come up to the surface of or rise