English > immerse: 4 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | thrust or throw into. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s PP |
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| Model | They immerse the object in the water |
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| Example | "Immerse yourself in hot water" |
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| Synonym | plunge |
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| Entailed by | spoon | scoop up or take up with a spoon |
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| Narrower | dip | Plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container |
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| dip | immerse / immerse in a disinfectant solution |
| dunk, dip | dip into a liquid / liquid while eating |
| dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse | immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate |
| sheathe | plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh |
| soak | submerge in a liquid / liquid |
| submerge, submerse | put under water |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate | Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance |
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| Spanish | hundirse, sumergirse, sumergir, sumir |
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| Catalan | enfonsar-se, enfonsar, submergir-se, submergir, sumir |
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English > immerse: 4 senses > verb 2, cognition| Meaning | Devote (oneself) fully to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP |
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| Example | "He immersed himself into his studies" |
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| Synonyms | steep, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up |
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| Caused by | plunge, immerse | Cause to be immersed |
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| Narrower | drink in, drink | Be fascinated or spell-bound by |
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| Broader | concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet | direct one's attention on something |
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| Similar to | plunge, immerse | Cause to be immersed |
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| Spanish | absorberse, abstraerse, aislarse, concentrarse, embelesarse, empaparse, enfrascarse, ensimismarse, sumergirse, zambullirse |
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| Catalan | immergir-se, submergir-se |
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| Nouns | immersion | complete attention |
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