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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Botany Growing or remaining under water: submerged leaves.
  2. adj. Living in poverty or misery.
  3. adj. Having been hidden.

Wiktionary

  1. v. Simple past tense and past participle of submerge.
  2. adj. underwater
  3. adj. below the surface of a liquid
  4. adj. hidden
  5. adj. poor, impoverished

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. beneath the surface of the water
  2. adj. growing or remaining under water

Examples

  • “Also, sea planes, when they take off or land, are quite vulnerable to what we call submerged debris, little things in the ocean that might catch on one of the wing floats as you might see on the picture there.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005

  • “The final group of policies, what I call the "submerged state," is largely invisible because its benefits are channeled through the tax code and subsidies to private organizations.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “Town-gown tensions between students and academics on the one hand and blue-collar residents on the other, tend to remain submerged beneath the surface of everyday life until a minor incident at a neighborhood bar located near a campus flares up.”

    Fictionaut: Gritty City Creates Knowledge Zone, But Some Feel Left Out

  • “Whatever the case, they remain submerged in the archives from 1731 until Gerrit Gerritsz and Abraham surfaced in 1743 opgaaf, and the rest of the children upon their marriages.”

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

  • “Since ice is less dense than dissolved ice (water), any increase in submerged sea ice will result in an increase of sea levels of greater proportion than mere melting.”

    Think Progress » Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science

  • “In emergency, it can remain submerged for 24 hours.”

    What Is the Navy Doing?

  • “Reptiles are slightly harder to love, if only because they're often hiding or submerged, which is why the relationship between the Capalino family and their turtle, a Red-eared Slider named Skipperdee, is noteworthy.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Keeping Skipperdee Afloat

  • “While protest activity subsided during 1998 – 1999, new radical peace initiatives were developed in what Melucci (1989) has characterized as submerged networks in everyday life.”

    Peace Movements in Israel.

  • “We are well-advised to look at articulations of what might be called a submerged but powerful 'alternative tradition' in American – and indeed, Western – political thought, one that was powerfully articulated by the original opponents to the Constitution.”

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • “The neo-con claque in the White House and in the salons of Washington had their own motives, some of which they publicized, such as imposing another US client state in the heart of the Middle East; some of which they kept relatively submerged, that is, annihilating a threat to Israel.”

    Pentagon Thievery

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