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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Emerge \E*merge"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Emerged}; p. pr & vb n. {Emerging}.] [L. emergere emersum e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See {Merge}.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: emerging adj 1: coming into view; "as newly emerging emotions and ideas well up in him" 2: coming into existence; "a nascent republic" [syn: {emergent}, {nascent}] 3: coming to maturity; "the rising generation" [syn: {rising}]
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