immersed

comparative more immersed · superlative most immersed

1. Under the surface of a liquid; sunk.
2. figurativelyDeeply involved.

   At a suitable distance apart, exercising his unique gift of being profoundly impressed by a subject that he had no interest in whatever, Parkinson was deeply immersed in a chart illustrating a century of wheat averages of the British Isles.

   1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

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   ON THE NARROW GAUGE. By P. B. Whitehouse. Nelson 30s. […] In an introductory note Mr. Whitehouse disarms any criticism from narrow-gauge aficionados as immersed in the subject as himself by pointing out that his book has no pretensions to the status of a new narrow-gauge textbook; […].

   1964 July, “New Books”, in Modern Railways, page 74

   And nothing's gonna change the way we live / 'Cause we can always take, but never give / And now that things are changing for the worse, see / Whoa, it's a crazy world we're livin' in / And I just can't see that half of us immersed in sin / Is all we have to give these

   1996, Jamiroquai, “Virtual Insanity”, in Travelling Without Moving

3. biologyLowered or sunken relative to a reference surface.

   Sori in the axils of lamina branches, partly immersed; involucre bell- or trumpet-shaped, or obconical, usually 2-lipped; receptacle generally exserted.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of immerse