submerge
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He ` s even posed electrocuted in the tub, but though he didn ` t submerge himself like this guy in "Law and Order."
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- transitive verb To place under water.
- transitive verb To cover with water; inundate.
- transitive verb To hide from view; obscure.
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- Others insisted the vessel wasn't a submarine and didn't submerge, but couldn't say exactly what it had done; only that it was gone before anyone thought to take a holo of it. — The Life of the World to Come
- The sea level would rise to submerge island states such as Sofold and much of Arsudun. — Mission to Moulokin
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He ` s even posed electrocuted in the tub, but though he didn ` t submerge himself like this guy in "Law and Order."
— CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2006 -
With Pittsburgh's chamber of commerce has been helping the city get ready for everyone to submerge upon it.
— CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009 -
"We saw the tsunami submerge our village," he says, "and ran for our lives.
— CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2005
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- Latin submergere : sub-, sub- + mergere, to plunge.
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/ (səb-mûrjˈ)/
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