Other forms: emerged, emerging, emerges
To emerge is to come out of somewhere and become visible. A fox emerges from the hedge; the sun emerges from behind a cloud; a swimmer emerges gasping at the far end of the pool.
It takes from - emerge from the tunnel, emerge from a difficult year - and as, when someone emerges as the favourite. It is also the word for facts coming to light, and the newspaper pattern is fixed: it emerged that the money had never been paid. Emerging works as an adjective for anything still on the way up, an emerging market, an emerging talent, and the noun is emergence. One grammatical point matters more than any of that: emerge takes no object. Things emerge; you cannot emerge them.
1verbemergeTo come out from a place where you could not be seen.~23%
“A badger emerged from the bracken and stood still for a moment.”
2verbbecomeTo become known.~9%
“It emerged later that both letters had been written on the same afternoon.”
3verbdifficultTo come out of a difficult period in a stated condition.~14%
“The club emerged from administration with half its squad gone.”
4verbdevelopTo develop into something noticed or important.~54%
“She emerged as the strongest candidate after the second debate.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 22 sentences found in the wild and placed 22 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: appear
English borrowed emerge in the late sixteenth century from Middle French emerger and Latin emergo, to rise up or out. Take that Latin verb apart and you find ex-, out, plus mergo, to dip or to sink - the same mergo that gives submerge. To emerge is to undo a dunking: whatever went under comes back up into the air.
Latin
ēmergō — to rise up or out
Middle French
emerger
English, today
emerge
Built from
late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergō (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergō (“to dip, to sink”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA