Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Immerse

Immerse , adjective

[Latin immersus, past participle of immergere. See Immerge.]

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obsolete]
Things immerse in matter. — Bacon

Immerse , transitive verb

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 overwhelm.
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