emerge
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Is emerge a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To come into view.Examples: "There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished."; "The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […]."; "Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood."Synonyms: come forthintransitive
2. (intransitive, copulative) To come out of a situation, object, or a liquid.Examples: "He emerged unscathed from the accident."; "The Soviet Union emerged from the ruins of an empire."; "The submarine emerged from the ocean."copulativeintransitive
3. (intransitive) To become known.Examples: "Gradually the truth emerged."; "The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy."Synonyms: come to light, transpireintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary