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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  1. transitive verb To place under water.
  2. transitive verb To cover with water; inundate.
  3. 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
  • 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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  1. Latin submergere : sub-, sub- + mergere, to plunge.

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/ (səb-mûrjˈ)/
ahd pronounces "submerge"
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