EMERGED

Verb

emerged

simple past tense and past participle of emerge.

Anagrams

• demerge

Source: Wiktionary


EMERGE

E*merge", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emerged; p. pr. & vb. n. Emerging.] Etym: [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge.]

Definition: To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden. Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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EARTHSHAKING

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