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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Emerge

/ĭm-ẽrj'/ · E·merge · IPA /ɪˈmɜːd͡ʒ/
01 v. i. 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 em…
imp. & p. p. Emerged; p. pr. & vb. n. Emerging
  1. 1.
    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.
    “Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society.” Burke.