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emerge

verb
/ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒ/UK/ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/US

Etymology

First attested in the late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergō (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergō (“to dip, to sink”)

  1. derived from ēmergō — “to rise up or out”
  2. borrowed from emerger

Definitions

  1. To come into view.

    • The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

  2. To come out of a situation, object, or a liquid.

    • He emerged unscathed from the accident.
    • The Soviet Union emerged from the ruins of an empire.
    • The submarine emerged from the ocean.

  3. To become known.

    • Gradually the truth emerged.
    • The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Alternative spelling of emerg.

The neighborhood

Derived

coemerge, re-emerge, reemerge, unemerged

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at emerge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at emerge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at emerge

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA