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  1. 1. a. Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To baptize by immersion. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. thrust or throw into Source: wordnet
  6. 6. v. devote (oneself) fully to Source: wordnet
  7. 7. v. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing Source: wordnet
  8. 8. v. cause to be immersed Source: wordnet
  9. 9. Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon. 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. Source: webster
  10. 10. Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter."Bacon. Source: adambom
  11. 11. v:100 v. thrust or throw into v. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing Source: ecdict

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