Immerge vs Dampen - What's the difference?
immerge | dampen |
To plunge into, under, or within anything, especially a fluid; to dip; to immerse.
* Boyle
* Jeremy Taylor
To disappear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.
(Webster 1913)
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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
* The Century
* 2007 October 16, Jane E. Brody, “Despite Strides, Listeria Needs Vigilance”, ,
To become damp; to deaden.
As verbs the difference between immerge and dampen
is that immerge is while dampen is to smoke, to give off smoke.As an adjective immerge
is immersed.immerge
English
Verb
(immerg)- We took lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna.
- Their souls are immerged in matter.
dampen
English
Verb
(en verb)- In a way that considerably dampened our enthusiasm.
- Pregnant women are 20 times as likely as other healthy young women to contract listeriosis, probably because in pregnancy the immune system is dampened to prevent rejection of the fetus.