emerge
/ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/ verb B1- To come into view.
- To come out of a situation, object, or a liquid. · He emerged unscathed from the accident.· The Soviet Union emerged from the ruins of an empire.
- To become known. · Gradually the truth emerged.
He/she/it emerges · Past emerged · Past participle emerged · -ing form emerging
Verb forms
- Base form
- emerge
- He/she/it
- emerges
- Past
- emerged
- Past participle
- emerged
- -ing form
- emerging
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Watson had taken a step forward when the bedroom door opened, and the long, thin form of Holmes emerged, his face pale and drawn, but his step and bearing as active as ever.
Just as Anne emerged triumphantly from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in rushed Diana Barry, white faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head.
"It was morning when I wakened, and it seemed to me that instead of coming out into a world of sanity I had emerged into some extraordinary nightmare.
We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit streets until we emerged into Farrington Street.
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