mergō mersī, mersus, ere MERG-, to dip, dip in, immerse, plunge, sink, bury: se in mari: putealibus undis, O.: mersa navis, Cu.: te sub aequore, V.: Ter matutino Tiberi mergetur, bathe, Iu.

—To engulf, swallow up, overwhelm: te mersurae aquae, O.: mersā rate, Iu.

—To plunge, thrust, drive, bury: mersisque in corpore rostris, O.

—To cover, bury, hide: suos in cortice voltūs, O.

—Fig., to plunge, sink, overwhelm, cover, bury, immerse, ruin: quae forma viros fortunave mersit, V.: quem funere mersit acerbo, brought to a painful death, V.: se in voluptates, L.: Quosdam mergit longa honorum Pagina, drags down, Iu.: mersus secundis rebus, overwhelmed with prosperity, L.: vino somnoque mersi, buried in drunken sleep, L.: rebus mersis in ventrem, swallowed up, Iu.: mergentibus sortem usuris, sinking his capital, L.: mersis fer opem rebus, to utter distress, O.