immerse

Verb

• thrust or throw into
  • "Immerse yourself in hot water"
• devote (oneself) fully to
  • "He immersed himself into his studies"
• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
• cause to be immersed
• To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
• To involve or engage deeply.
• To map into an immersion.
• -MERSED, -MERSING, -MERSES to plunge into a liquid

Adj

• Immersed; buried; sunk.

Examples

• "Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water."
• "The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies."

Synonyms

absorb, bury, eat up, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep, swallow, swallow up, submerge