- emerge
- [[t]ɪmɜ͟ː(r)ʤ[/t]]
♦♦emerges, emerging, emerged1) VERB To emerge means to come out from an enclosed or dark space such as a room or a vehicle, or from a position where you could not be seen.
Richard was waiting outside the door as she emerged...
[V from n] The postman emerged from his van soaked to the skin.
[V-ing] ...holes made by the emerging adult beetle.
2) VERB If you emerge from a difficult or bad experience, you come to the end of it.[V from n] There is growing evidence that the economy is at last emerging from recession.
[V from n] ...their plans to emerge from bankruptcy by February of next year.
3) VERB If a fact or result emerges from a period of thought, discussion, or investigation, it becomes known as a result of it....the growing corruption that has emerged in the past few years...
[it V that] It soon emerged that neither the July nor August mortgage repayment had been collected...
[V-ing] The emerging caution over numbers is perhaps only to be expected.
4) VERB If someone or something emerges as a particular thing, they become recognized as that thing. [JOURNALISM][V as n] Mr Shevardnadze emerged as a major figure in the reform movement...
[V as n] Vietnam has emerged as the world's third-biggest rice exporter...
New leaders have emerged.
5) VERB When something such as an organization or an industry emerges, it comes into existence. [JOURNALISM]...the new republic that emerged in October 1917.
[V-ing] ...the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.
English dictionary. 2008.
