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merg / mers

to dip, plunge

Latin · mergere / mersus

Merg and mers words come from the Latin word for plunge. To emerge is to come out of water, to submerge is to go under, and to merge is to blend into one.

Memory trick

Submarines plunge down; emerge is to come back up out of the water.

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