(emerges, emerging, emerged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
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...
The postman emerged from his van soaked to the skin.
...holes made by the emerging adult beetle.
VERB: V, V from n, V-ing
2.
If you emerge from a difficult or bad experience, you come to the end of it.
There is growing evidence that the economy is at last emerging from recession.
VERB: V from n
3.
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 soon emerged that neither the July nor August mortgage repayment had been collected...
The emerging caution over numbers is perhaps only to be expected.
VERB: V, it V that, V-ing
4.
If someone or something emerges as a particular thing, they become recognized as that thing. (JOURNALISM)
Vietnam has emerged as the world's third-biggest rice exporter...
New leaders have emerged.
VERB: V as n, V
5.
When something such as an organization or an industry emerges, it comes into existence. (JOURNALISM)
...the new republic that emerged in October 1917.
...the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.
VERB: V, V-ing