Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To place under water.
- v. To cover with water; inundate.
- v. To hide from view; obscure.
- v. To go under or as if under water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put under water; plunge.
- To cover or overflow with water; inundate; drown.
- To sink under water; be buried or covered, as by a fluid; sink out of sight.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To sink out of sight.
- v. transitive To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
- v. transitive To be engulfed in or with something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To put under water; to plunge.
- v. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
- v. To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.
WordNet 3.0
- v. sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
- v. put under water
- v. cover completely or make imperceptible
- v. fill or cover completely, usually with water
Etymologies
- From Latin submergere, from sub- ("under") + mergere ("to plunge"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin submergere : sub-, sub- + mergere, to plunge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Way back in 1966, when he first began assuming leadership of the organization he'd come to re-brand as the Family, he sent out a memo declaring that the time had come to "submerge" the group's public profile.”
“Because place is such a major part of my writing and life, I thought it important that Bird Cloud breathe in and out of the landscape, a house subject not only to the wind, but to the drowning shadows that submerge it every evening and the sharp slice of sunlight at the eastern end of the cliff.”
“Today we merge Washington's birthday with the birthdays of other presidents and submerge them all in clothing and appliance sales.”
“Even though there is not enough water in the bowl to submerge large deposits, pull the lever and the deposits, loose towels, and a couple of stray cats will all disappear violently.”
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“I felt like I was part of a movement and wanted to submerge myself in gay culture.”
“History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity...”
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“At 17.5 feet, waters begin to submerge Harriet Island Park across the river from downtown.”
“Whales have blowholes on the top of their heads because they submerge themselves, and hippos have giant, high placed nostrils for the same reason.”
“The style of writing in the Guardian really helps submerge you into the places described, which can also be a great escape from the day's creative chaos.”
“In March 2006, he warned that a tsunami could submerge and destroy the diesel engines that pump cooling water to nuclear plants—something that happened at Fukushima Daiichi.”
Lists
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 202 more...
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October 2011
serendipity, grateful, irritable, punchy, twitchy, reverence, solitude, levity, nubble, sojourn, Eden, quesadilla and 19 more...
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11
ballast, buoyant, clamber, detach, eerie, fathom, pique, probe, realize, rupture, sphere, submerge and 3 more...
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I am : surrounded
More-or-less self-explanatory...
surround, encircle, flood, deluge, immerse, submerge, soak, saturate, bury, smother, beseige, stifle and 19 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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vocab 10
unscathed, ultimate, tedious, submerge, sphere, rupture, realize, probe, pique, fathom, eerie, detach and 3 more...
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Lesson 11 Vocabulary
Ballast, buoyant, detach, eerie, fathom, pique, probe, realize, rupture, sphere, submerge, tedious and 2 more...
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Water Verbs
deluge, pour, leak, flood, flow, gush, flush, drizzle, rain, spill, drop, spout and 15 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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tragedy of the commons
insomnia, arabesque, carousal, lucifer, riot, submerge, initiate, indigo, existence, magenta, opus, sleeplessness and 145 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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-merge, -merse
plunge; dip
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Lesson 11
Vocabulary 7. Lesson 11. ballast - unscathed.
unscathed, ultimate, tedious, submerge, sphere, rupture, realize, probe, pique, fathom, eerie, detach and 3 more...
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"Half my Egypt were submerg'd and made / A cestern for scal'd snakes." Sep 2, 2009