emerge

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/, /iˈmɝd͡ʒ/

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• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒ/, /iˈmɜːd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
• Hyphenation: emerge

emerge (third-person singular simple present emerges, present participle emerging, simple past and past participle emerged)

1. (intransitive) To come into view.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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. […] .

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

     Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.

   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:

     With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

2. (intransitive, copulative) 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.

   • 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 172:

     Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.

3. (intransitive) To become known.

   Gradually the truth emerged.

   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     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.

• (to come into view): come forth, forthcome, heave in sight; see also Thesaurus:appear
• (to become known): come to light, transpire

• re-emerge, reemerge

• emergence
• emergency
• emergent

emerge

1. Alternative spelling of emerg

• mergee

• IPA^(key): /eˈmɛr.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -ɛrdʒe
• Hyphenation: e‧mèr‧ge

emerge

1. third-person singular present indicative of emergere

• gemere, megere

ēmerge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ēmergō

emerge

1. inflection of emergir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French émerger.

a emerge (third-person singular present emerge, past participle emers) 3rd conj.

1. to emerge

emerge

1. inflection of emerger:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative