- plunged into or as if into a liquid
- baptized by immersion
- Biol. embedded in another organ
- Bot. growing completely under water
A swimmer immersed in the pool
- An example of immersed is having dipped a sponge into a bath tub; immersed sponge.
- An example of immersed is a writer working on a novel who doesn’t hear anything while working; immersed writer.
The definition of immersed is put into a liquid or involved in something completely.
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Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of immerse
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Sentence Examples
- She leaned back and held her nose as she completely immersed herself.
- 3) floating partly immersed in water and the rest in air.
- He let go of all his worries and immersed himself fully in the moment.
- If the rods are to be buffed they are immersed in large tanks of boiling water from 4 to 6 hours.
- Since i +47-K' can never be negative, the apparent susceptibility will be positive or negative according as is greater or less than Thus, for example, a tube containing a weak solution of an iron salt will appear to be diamagnetic if it is immersed in a stronger solution of iron, though in air it is paramagnetic.4 Circular Magnetization.
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