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Adjective emerging has 3 senses
- emerging - coming into view; "as newly emerging emotions and ideas well up in him"
- emergent, emerging, nascent - coming into existence; "a nascent republic"
Antonym: dying (indirect, via aborning)
- emerging, rising - coming to maturity; "the rising generation"
Antonym: past (indirect, via present, future)
Antonym: present (indirect, via future, past)
Verb emerge has 5 senses
- emerge - come out into view, as from concealment; "Suddenly, the proprietor emerged from his office"
--1 is one way to appear
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress - come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- emerge - become known or apparent; "Some nice results emerged from the study"
--3 is one way to appear
Sample sentence:
It ----s that CLAUSE
- emerge - come up to the surface of or rise; "He felt new emotions emerge"
--4 is one way to surface, come up, rise up, rise
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- come forth, emerge - happen or occur as a result of something
--5 is one way to originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
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