Submerged
[səb'mɜːdʒd] or [səb'mɝdʒd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Submerge
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Examples
- 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.
- The one who had been uppermost was Yeobright; he who had been completely submerged was Wildeve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He did not know how, with his full, submerged, watchful eyes, he could look into her and see her, what she was, see her secrets. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mankind begins its history submerged in nature--not as Man who is a creature of reason, while nature furnishes only instinct and appetite. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Much more probably it waded half submerged in pursuit of the herbivorous river saurians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The juices are put in bottles and are immediately corked and wired securely, and then submerged in a water bath to a depth of about 1 inch above the bottles. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Filling my lungs with air, I dived beneath the surface and swam through the inky, icy blackness on and on along the submerged gallery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- During this voyage it lay for two hours on the ocean bottom in the English Channel and was submerged in all not over ninety hours, the remainder of the voyage being made on the surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This was 118 feet long by 8 feet 3 inches beam, 106 tons surface and 168 submerged displacement. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Or it may be that wheat grew wild in some regions now submerged. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His mind was almost submerged, he was almost transfused, lapsed out for the first time in his life, into the things about him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- By aid of submerged boats, with their powerful electric lights, the work becomes one of certainty rather than of chance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Geologists tell us that our own Western States were once submerged, and that the waters evaporated and disappeared from our land very much as they did from Germany. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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