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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Im·merse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immersed p. pr. & vb. n. Immersing.]
 1. To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.
    Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave.   --J Warton.
    More than a mile immersed within the wood.   --Dryden.
 2. To baptize by immersion.
 3. To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.
    The queen immersed in such a trance.   --Tennyson.
    It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this.   --Atterbury.