(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 emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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