merge, duck, dunk, sink; soak, steep, swash, slosh; bathe, douse, drench, souse, imbue, saturate; flood, inundate, drown.
2. baptize, christen, Archaic, dip; cleanse, purify, lustrate.
3. embed, bury, inhume, Obs.inter.
4. engage, occupy, hold, take up, involve; absorb, engross, preoccupy, monopolize, engulf, consume; enthrall, fascinate, captivate, spellbind, mesmerize; whelm, overwhelm; attract, allure, draw.
immersion, n.1. immergence, immerging, plunging, diving, dipping; submergence, submerging, ducking, dunking, sinking; soaking, steeping, swashing, sloshing; bathing, dousing, drenching, sousing, imbue-ment, imbuing, saturation, saturating; flooding, inundation, inundating, drowning.
2. baptism, baptizement, christening, liturgy, Eccles. sacrament; dunking, Archaic, dipping; ablution, cleansing, purification, lustration.
3. engagement, occupation, involvement; absorption, engrossment, brown study, preoccupation, monopolization, engulfment, consummation; enthrallment, fascination, captivation, mesmerization.
immigrant, n.1. nonnative, naturalized citizen, Chiefly Brit,
incomer; foreigner, alien, outsider, out-lander, tramontane, barbarian; illegal alien, Often Disparaging.
wetback; migrant, migrator, emigrant, expatriate.
2. entrant, arrival, newcomer, new kid orboy orgirl, new kid on the block orin town.
immigrate, v. migrate, change one's place of residence, move, resettle, emigrate; enter the country, come orpass into the country, set foot on foreign soil, cross the border; change one's citizenship, start a new life, put down new roots.
imminent, adj.1. approaching, coming, forthcoming, toward, nearing, drawing near ornigh; near, close, close by, nearby, nigh, proximate, close at hand, at hand, within reach orsight, staring [s.o.] in the face; just about oralmost here, about to happen, going to happen soon, upon us, likely to occur at any moment, momentary, immediate.
2. impending, lying in wait, in store, in the air or wind; overhanging, projecting, lowering; threatening, looming, brooding.
immobile, adj.immovable, motionless, immotive, unmoving, stock-still; stationary, fixed, rooted, riveted, like a statue; staunch, firm, constant, steadfast; inflexible, rigid, Inf.standpat; quiescent, inactive, dormant, at rest. See - immovable (defs.1, 2).
immobility, n.immovability, fixity, stability, firmness; inflexibility, stiffness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor mortis; inertia, inertness, quiescence, inactivity, quietus, retirement.
immoderate, adj.1. excessive, inordinate, overweening, high-flown, overblown, extreme, extravagant; exorbitant, unreasonable, unwarranted, uncalled-for, exaggerated, undue, preposterous, outrageous, unconscionable.
2. unbridled, unrestrained, unlimited, uncurbed, uncontrolled; intemperate, incontinent, wanton, free-living, Saturnalian, self-indulgent; lavish, prodigal, profligate, squandering, dissipative.
immoderation, n.1. excess, excessiveness, inordinateness, Obs.inordinacy; extremeness, extravagance, exorbitance, exorbitancy; lavishness, prodigality, profuseness.
2. unrestraint, abandon, self-indulgence; wantonness, profligacy, dissipation, dissoluteness; intemperance, overindulgence, drunkenness; incontinence, licentiousness, lechery.