Emerge

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: e=merge

CIDE DICTIONARY

Emerge, v. i. [L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge.].

 To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
"Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Emerge, v.intr. (often foll. by from)
1 come up or out into view, esp. when formerly concealed.
2 come up out of a liquid.
3 (of facts, circumstances, etc.) come to light, become known, esp. as a result of inquiry etc.
4 become recognized or prominent (emerged as a leading contender).
5 (of a question, difficulty, etc.) become apparent.
6 survive (an ordeal etc.) with a specified result (emerged unscathed).

Derivative

emergence n.

Etymology

L emergere emers- (as E-, mergere dip)

THESAURUS

Emerge

accrue from, appear, arise, arise from, bail out, be contingent on, be due to, be revealed, become known, become manifest, become visible, break cover, break forth, break out, break through, bud from, burst forth, come, come forth, come forward, come from, come in sight, come out, come out of, come to hand, come to light, come up, crop out, crop up, debouch, depend on, derive, derive from, descend from, develop, disembogue, effuse, emanate, emanate from, emerge from, ensue from, enter, erupt, evolve, exit, extrude, fade in, find vent, flow, flow from, follow from, germinate from, grow from, grow out of, hang on, happen, heave in sight, hinge on, issue, issue forth, issue from, jump out, leak out, look forth, loom, materialize, ooze out, originate, originate in, outcrop, peep out, proceed, proceed from, protrude, rear its head, rise, run out, sally, sally forth, see the light, show, show up, spring, spring from, sprout from, stem, stem from, stream forth, strike the eye, surface, transpire, turn on, turn out, turn up

ROGET THESAURUS

Emerge

Egress

VB emerge, emanate, issue, egress, go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of, pass out of, evacuate, exude, transude, leak, run through, out through, percolate, transcolate, egurgitate, strain, distill, perspire, sweat, drain, ooze, filter, filtrate, dribble, gush, spout, flow out, well, well out, pour, trickle, effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch, come forth, break forth, burst out, burst through, find vent, escape.