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say it: im-URS
immerse is a verb meaning "thrust or throw into". It carries 4 recorded senses.
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
“The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter”
cause to be immersed
“The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for immerse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.