Submerge
[səb'mɜːdʒ] or [səb'mɝdʒ]
Definition
(verb.) cover completely or make imperceptible; 'I was drowned in work'; 'The noise drowned out her speech'.
(verb.) put under water; 'submerge your head completely'.
(verb.) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water.
Edited by Julius--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.
(v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
(v. i.) To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.
Checked by Erwin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Immerse, inundate, deluge, flood, overflow, overwhelm, drown, plunge, sink, submerse, put under water (or other liquid).
Typed by Jewel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Drown, plunge, overwhelm, deluge, inundate, fink, steep, immerse
ANT:Raise, extricate, educe
Typist: Maura
Definition
v.t. to plunge under water: to overflow with water: to drown.—v.i. to sink under water.—ns. Submerg′ence Submer′sion.—adjs. Submerged′ Submersed′ being or growing under water.
Typed by Dominic
Examples
- Sometimes they overwhelm and submerge and discourage. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A refrigerating chamber _b_, submerged in the water, is charged internally with some volatile liquid, such as ether. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He saw her submerged, and he turned aside his face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If he had spared her that she could have drowned quietly, welcoming the dark flood as it submerged her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To-day there lie in submerged silence, but pulsating with the life of the world, no less than 1,500 submarine telegraphs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Geologists say that long ages ago Germany was submerged, that the waters slowly evaporated and that the various substances in the sea water were deposited in thick layers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We were simply submerged by numbers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Inputed by Julio