submergev.

Brit.

/səbˈməːdʒ/, U.S.

/səbˈmərdʒ/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French submerger; Latin submergere.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French submerger (of a liquid) to cover (a person or thing) completely, to inundate (1393), to cause (a person or thing) to be completely covered by a liquid, to immerse (a1498), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin submergere (also summergere ) to cause to sink, in post-classical Latin also to be drowned (from 13th cent. in British sources) < sub- sub- prefix + mergere merge v. Compare Old Occitan somerger (11th cent.), Catalan submergir (15th cent.), Spanish sumergir (15th cent.), Portuguese submergir (13th cent. as somerger), Italian sommergere (early 14th cent.).

a. transitive. To cause (a person or thing) to sink or plunge under the surface of water or other liquid; to place under the surface of water or other liquid. Also reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being submerged or action of submerging > submerge [verb (transitive)]

forsencha1225

submerge1490

sommerse1632

swamp1866

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > dip or plunge into liquid > cause to sink in a liquid

senchOE

asenchOE

sinkc1175

drenchc1200

adrenchc1300

drenklea1325

submerse?a1425

drownc1465

submerge1490

sommerse1632

whelm1725

whemmel1824

1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xi. sig. Dj But not for that I desire and wysshe that..the grete fader almyghty to plonge and submerge me vnder the botomes of the depe palusshe infernalle [Fr. le grant pere tout puissant saudoyeux aux umbres palantes, umbre d'enfer et parfonde].

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Submerger, to submerge; to plunge or sinke vnder, whirken or ouerwhelme by,..the water.

1628 tr. Apol. Reformed Churches of France 52 Our Enemies..esteeme vs as the Dike and Fences to hinder the Torrent from going to swallow downe, and submerge you.

1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xxxi. 178 Some there are yet, who keep their Timber as moist as they can, by submerging it in Water.

1765 tr. Voltaire Philos. Dict. 128 It is a miracle that forty days rain should have submerged the four parts of the world.

1797 Monthly Mag. July 54/1 The fishermen lay the lombrics in pots, where they disgorge the humour copiously, so as to submerge themselves.

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. 212 Experimentalists may.., without danger, submerge a hive of bees, when they want to examine them particularly.

1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 91 The shallow and tideless Baltic has scarcely a sounding that could submerge St. Paul's Cathedral.

1885 Marine Engineer June 62/2 They are..of immense value..in enabling corn ships to be submerged temporarily to elude the pursuit of ironclads.

1902 H. C. Fyfe et al. Submarine Warfare xvi. 241 They depended upon varying the displacement of the boat by taking in water to submerge her.

1974 B. Myatt Dict. Austral. Gemstones 25 Any clay in the gravels must be washed..by submerging the gold pan and rubbing the washdirt between the hands.

2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! vii. 77 Max..fills up the bath nice and deep and hot and sudsy and submerges himself in it.

b. transitive. figurative. To conceal or obscure (something) as if under a layer of water; to restrain, to inhibit; to overwhelm.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)]

heeleOE

forhelec888

i-hedec888

dernc893

hidec897

wryOE

behelec1000

behidec1000

bewryc1000

forhidec1000

overheleOE

hilla1250

fealc1325

cover1340

forcover1382

blinda1400

hulsterc1400

overclosec1400

concealc1425

shroud1426

blend1430

close1430

shadow1436

obumber?1440

mufflea1450

alaynec1450

mew?c1450

purloin1461

to keep close?1471

oversilec1478

bewrap1481

supprime1490

occulta1500

silec1500

smoor1513

shadec1530

skleir1532

oppressa1538

hudder-mudder1544

pretex1548

lap?c1550

absconce1570

to steek away1575

couch1577

recondite1578

huddle1581

mew1581

enshrine1582

enshroud1582

mask1582

veil1582

abscondc1586

smotherc1592

blot1593

sheathe1594

immask1595

secret1595

bemist1598

palliate1598

hoodwinka1600

overmaska1600

hugger1600

obscure1600

upwrap1600

undisclose1601

disguise1605

screen1611

underfold1612

huke1613

eclipsea1616

encavea1616

ensconcea1616

obscurify1622

cloud1623

inmewa1625

beclouda1631

pretext1634

covert1647

sconce1652

tapisa1660

shun1661

sneak1701

overlay1719

secrete1741

blank1764

submerge1796

slur1813

wrap1817

buttress1820

stifle1820

disidentify1845

to stick away1900

1796 Crit. Rev. Dec. 444 To..submerge the brightening spirit of the times in those immense clouds of ignorance and darkness.

1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 139 The magnitude of the sensation is attested by its power to submerge a great many irritations.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 168 Behind the protecting spur a gigantic accumulation of cottony vapour threatened, with every second to blow over and submerge our homestead.

1907 P. T. Forsyth Positive Preaching iv. 124 Our demands must never be submerged by our sympathies.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 17 Twilight thick underdusk..While darkness submerges the stones.

1958 Jet 3 July 51 He..submerged the urge to revenge the killing of his wife and child.

1988 H. David Fitzrovians (1989) iii. 34 He..submerged himself in the business of being a Bohemian.

2010 New Yorker 17 May 111/1 Poets once tried to submerge or subvert their individual differences, as part of their program to demystify the ‘individual’.

a. transitive (in passive). To be covered with water or other liquid; to be sunk in water, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > water > put water into [verb (transitive)] > cover or fill with water

watereOE

flowa1382

submerge1611

flood1831

1611 A. Munday Briefe Chron. 280 Malamocco was almost all burned and submerged; by reason whereof, the Episcopall See was transferred to Chioggia.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 95 So halfe my Egypt were submerg'd and made A Cesterne for scal'd Snakes.

1688 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 453 That the island of Madera's..had been destroyed by an earthquake and submerg'd in the sea.

1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals VI. 66 The lower lands have been by degrees washed away and submerged.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 430 Those lost people, whom we have supposed to have been submerged, when the present face of things was drawn into existence.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 116 Tracts that may be submerged or variously altered in depth.

1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. i. 1 He tells of continents submerged, and of ocean bottoms lifted up to become mountains.

1957 A. C. Clarke Deep Range i. iii. 36 Though the reef flat was completely submerged the great plateau of coral was nowhere more than five or six feet below the surface.

1988 R. Hillis in G. Ursell Sky High 328 As a boy Michael would lie in the bath, submerged except for his face.

2001 D. Lehane Mystic River 138 Celeste was watching a woman's manicured hands scrub a baking dish that looked like it had been submerged in warm caramel.

b. transitive (in passive). figurative. To be concealed or obscured as if under a layer of water; to be overwhelmed; to be restrained or inhibited; to be absorbed.

ΚΠ

a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Sssss4^v/1 His publick civil Government is seditiously and barbarously molested and wounded, and many of his chief Gentry..spoyld, lost, and submerged, in the impious inundation and torrent of their still-growing malice.

1789 T. Holcroft tr. Ess. on German Lit. in Posthumous. Wks. Frederic II XIII. 403 No choice of phraseology, the most proper and expressive words neglected, and the sense of the whole submerged in oceans of episode.

1831 Millennial Harbinger (Bethany, Va.) 7 Feb. 59 Their understandings, wills, affections—their bodies, souls, and spirits, were submitted to, and submerged in, the energies of him who proceeded from the Father and the Son.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iv. ii. 129 Grievously do I pity the miserable monks his commentators, whose minds, submerged in the mare tenebrosum of the cloister, had to pass a term of years in the mazy arborescence of his verbiage.

1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. p. xxi Faculty, which is kept thus submerged, not by its own weakness, but by the constitution of man's personality.

1937 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 July Her bright eyes, almost submerged in puffs of flesh, were most friendly.

1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column iii. vi. 203 Raza Ali of Amirpur had fallen completely under Sita's spell, humble as a bond-slave, his will submerged.

2009 New Yorker 7 Dec. 14/2 There are surprisingly captivating and nuanced melodies submerged beneath the vast ocean of Friel's byzantine electronic arrangements.

a. intransitive. figurative. To disappear from sight, as if under a layer of water; to become concealed or obscured; to become absorbed or subsumed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > pass out of sight

sink1521

submerge1629

disappear1665

dive1748

1629 J. Reynolds tr. L. de Marandé Iudgm. Humane Actions iv. 130 The waues of the Sea are mercilesse, but those of Loue farre more; those afflict vs with the feare of Death, but these deuoure, and swallow vs vp euery moment, and yet we can neither submerge, nor drowne [Fr. ne nous peuuent submerger].

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. v. 120 This Question of the Trial..emerged and submerged among the infinite of questions and embroilments.

1884 K. M. Ganguli tr. Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 513 At one time it [sc. the city] went in a crooked way, and at another time it submerged into water.

1927 S. de Sanctis Relig. Conversion iv. 105 In the course of years..a pathematic storm may submerge in the subconscious.

1964 A. S. Byatt Shadow of Sun i. 30 She dropped into love like a stone into water, and submerged tracelessly and altogether.

1997 M. J. Shendge Lang. of Harappans 72 When the Asura population abandoned its own ethno-linguistic identity, naturally it submerged into the whole mass.

b. intransitive. To sink or plunge under the surface of water or other liquid; to undergo submersion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid

sinkOE

drench1297

drenklec1330

to go downa1475

replunge1611

submerge1652

swamp1795

to go under1820

society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > submerge or travel under water (of submarine)

dive1872

submerge1903

crash-dive1928

to do a porpoise1929

snort1953

1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 123 A Cork sometimes elevateth it self, and then submergeth under the water.

1694 W. Leybourn Pleasure with Profit iv. 9 Solid Magnitudes that are Lighter than the Liquid, being demitted into the [settled] Liquid, will not totally Submerge in the same.

1706 E. Baynard in J. Floyer Psychrolousia (ed. 2) 173 After some time to try the Cold Bath upon the accession of the Fit, just to submerge, and so out.

1808 Gentleman's Mag. 78 670/2 Some say, they [sc. swallows] submerge in ponds.

1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis I. 48 He submerged, and we lost sight of him.

1903 A. H. Burgoyne Submarine Navigation II. 162 Having reached the ‘limit of visibility’ it becomes necessary to submerge.

1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 149 We submerge in turn, holding to the rope, being clutched by one another.

1958 J. Lewis in C. S. Lewis Lett. to Amer. Lady (1969) 72 He comes up for air now and then, blows a few pathetic bubbles, then submerges again.

2009 Esquire Mar. 144/3 We could only see his head, floating there, with a cigarette clamped between his lips, soon extinguished as he submerged completely.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	submerge
释义	submergev. Brit. /səbˈməːdʒ/, U.S. /səbˈmərdʒ/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French submerger; Latin submergere. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French submerger (of a liquid) to cover (a person or thing) completely, to inundate (1393), to cause (a person or thing) to be completely covered by a liquid, to immerse (a1498), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin submergere (also summergere ) to cause to sink, in post-classical Latin also to be drowned (from 13th cent. in British sources) < sub- sub- prefix + mergere merge v. Compare Old Occitan somerger (11th cent.), Catalan submergir (15th cent.), Spanish sumergir (15th cent.), Portuguese submergir (13th cent. as somerger), Italian sommergere (early 14th cent.). 1. a. transitive. To cause (a person or thing) to sink or plunge under the surface of water or other liquid; to place under the surface of water or other liquid. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being submerged or action of submerging > submerge [verb (transitive)] forsencha1225 submerge1490 sommerse1632 swamp1866 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > dip or plunge into liquid > cause to sink in a liquid senchOE asenchOE sinkc1175 drenchc1200 adrenchc1300 drenklea1325 submerse?a1425 drownc1465 submerge1490 sommerse1632 whelm1725 whemmel1824 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xi. sig. Dj But not for that I desire and wysshe that..the grete fader almyghty to plonge and submerge me vnder the botomes of the depe palusshe infernalle [Fr. le grant pere tout puissant saudoyeux aux umbres palantes, umbre d'enfer et parfonde]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Submerger, to submerge; to plunge or sinke vnder, whirken or ouerwhelme by,..the water. 1628 tr. Apol. Reformed Churches of France 52 Our Enemies..esteeme vs as the Dike and Fences to hinder the Torrent from going to swallow downe, and submerge you. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xxxi. 178 Some there are yet, who keep their Timber as moist as they can, by submerging it in Water. 1765 tr. Voltaire Philos. Dict. 128 It is a miracle that forty days rain should have submerged the four parts of the world. 1797 Monthly Mag. July 54/1 The fishermen lay the lombrics in pots, where they disgorge the humour copiously, so as to submerge themselves. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. 212 Experimentalists may.., without danger, submerge a hive of bees, when they want to examine them particularly. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 91 The shallow and tideless Baltic has scarcely a sounding that could submerge St. Paul's Cathedral. 1885 Marine Engineer June 62/2 They are..of immense value..in enabling corn ships to be submerged temporarily to elude the pursuit of ironclads. 1902 H. C. Fyfe et al. Submarine Warfare xvi. 241 They depended upon varying the displacement of the boat by taking in water to submerge her. 1974 B. Myatt Dict. Austral. Gemstones 25 Any clay in the gravels must be washed..by submerging the gold pan and rubbing the washdirt between the hands. 2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! vii. 77 Max..fills up the bath nice and deep and hot and sudsy and submerges himself in it. b. transitive. figurative. To conceal or obscure (something) as if under a layer of water; to restrain, to inhibit; to overwhelm. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)] heeleOE forhelec888 i-hedec888 dernc893 hidec897 wryOE behelec1000 behidec1000 bewryc1000 forhidec1000 overheleOE hilla1250 fealc1325 cover1340 forcover1382 blinda1400 hulsterc1400 overclosec1400 concealc1425 shroud1426 blend1430 close1430 shadow1436 obumber?1440 mufflea1450 alaynec1450 mew?c1450 purloin1461 to keep close?1471 oversilec1478 bewrap1481 supprime1490 occulta1500 silec1500 smoor1513 shadec1530 skleir1532 oppressa1538 hudder-mudder1544 pretex1548 lap?c1550 absconce1570 to steek away1575 couch1577 recondite1578 huddle1581 mew1581 enshrine1582 enshroud1582 mask1582 veil1582 abscondc1586 smotherc1592 blot1593 sheathe1594 immask1595 secret1595 bemist1598 palliate1598 hoodwinka1600 overmaska1600 hugger1600 obscure1600 upwrap1600 undisclose1601 disguise1605 screen1611 underfold1612 huke1613 eclipsea1616 encavea1616 ensconcea1616 obscurify1622 cloud1623 inmewa1625 beclouda1631 pretext1634 covert1647 sconce1652 tapisa1660 shun1661 sneak1701 overlay1719 secrete1741 blank1764 submerge1796 slur1813 wrap1817 buttress1820 stifle1820 disidentify1845 to stick away1900 1796 Crit. Rev. Dec. 444 To..submerge the brightening spirit of the times in those immense clouds of ignorance and darkness. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 139 The magnitude of the sensation is attested by its power to submerge a great many irritations. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 168 Behind the protecting spur a gigantic accumulation of cottony vapour threatened, with every second to blow over and submerge our homestead. 1907 P. T. Forsyth Positive Preaching iv. 124 Our demands must never be submerged by our sympathies. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 17 Twilight thick underdusk..While darkness submerges the stones. 1958 Jet 3 July 51 He..submerged the urge to revenge the killing of his wife and child. 1988 H. David Fitzrovians (1989) iii. 34 He..submerged himself in the business of being a Bohemian. 2010 New Yorker 17 May 111/1 Poets once tried to submerge or subvert their individual differences, as part of their program to demystify the ‘individual’. 2. a. transitive (in passive). To be covered with water or other liquid; to be sunk in water, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > put water into [verb (transitive)] > cover or fill with water watereOE flowa1382 submerge1611 flood1831 1611 A. Munday Briefe Chron. 280 Malamocco was almost all burned and submerged; by reason whereof, the Episcopall See was transferred to Chioggia. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 95 So halfe my Egypt were submerg'd and made A Cesterne for scal'd Snakes. View more context for this quotation 1688 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 453 That the island of Madera's..had been destroyed by an earthquake and submerg'd in the sea. 1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals VI. 66 The lower lands have been by degrees washed away and submerged. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 430 Those lost people, whom we have supposed to have been submerged, when the present face of things was drawn into existence. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 116 Tracts that may be submerged or variously altered in depth. 1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. i. 1 He tells of continents submerged, and of ocean bottoms lifted up to become mountains. 1957 A. C. Clarke Deep Range i. iii. 36 Though the reef flat was completely submerged the great plateau of coral was nowhere more than five or six feet below the surface. 1988 R. Hillis in G. Ursell Sky High 328 As a boy Michael would lie in the bath, submerged except for his face. 2001 D. Lehane Mystic River 138 Celeste was watching a woman's manicured hands scrub a baking dish that looked like it had been submerged in warm caramel. b. transitive (in passive). figurative. To be concealed or obscured as if under a layer of water; to be overwhelmed; to be restrained or inhibited; to be absorbed. ΚΠ a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Sssss4^v/1 His publick civil Government is seditiously and barbarously molested and wounded, and many of his chief Gentry..spoyld, lost, and submerged, in the impious inundation and torrent of their still-growing malice. 1789 T. Holcroft tr. Ess. on German Lit. in Posthumous. Wks. Frederic II XIII. 403 No choice of phraseology, the most proper and expressive words neglected, and the sense of the whole submerged in oceans of episode. 1831 Millennial Harbinger (Bethany, Va.) 7 Feb. 59 Their understandings, wills, affections—their bodies, souls, and spirits, were submitted to, and submerged in, the energies of him who proceeded from the Father and the Son. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iv. ii. 129 Grievously do I pity the miserable monks his commentators, whose minds, submerged in the mare tenebrosum of the cloister, had to pass a term of years in the mazy arborescence of his verbiage. 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. p. xxi Faculty, which is kept thus submerged, not by its own weakness, but by the constitution of man's personality. 1937 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 July Her bright eyes, almost submerged in puffs of flesh, were most friendly. 1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column iii. vi. 203 Raza Ali of Amirpur had fallen completely under Sita's spell, humble as a bond-slave, his will submerged. 2009 New Yorker 7 Dec. 14/2 There are surprisingly captivating and nuanced melodies submerged beneath the vast ocean of Friel's byzantine electronic arrangements. 3. a. intransitive. figurative. To disappear from sight, as if under a layer of water; to become concealed or obscured; to become absorbed or subsumed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear > pass out of sight sink1521 submerge1629 disappear1665 dive1748 1629 J. Reynolds tr. L. de Marandé Iudgm. Humane Actions iv. 130 The waues of the Sea are mercilesse, but those of Loue farre more; those afflict vs with the feare of Death, but these deuoure, and swallow vs vp euery moment, and yet we can neither submerge, nor drowne [Fr. ne nous peuuent submerger]. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. v. 120 This Question of the Trial..emerged and submerged among the infinite of questions and embroilments. 1884 K. M. Ganguli tr. Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 513 At one time it [sc. the city] went in a crooked way, and at another time it submerged into water. 1927 S. de Sanctis Relig. Conversion iv. 105 In the course of years..a pathematic storm may submerge in the subconscious. 1964 A. S. Byatt Shadow of Sun i. 30 She dropped into love like a stone into water, and submerged tracelessly and altogether. 1997 M. J. Shendge Lang. of Harappans 72 When the Asura population abandoned its own ethno-linguistic identity, naturally it submerged into the whole mass. b. intransitive. To sink or plunge under the surface of water or other liquid; to undergo submersion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid sinkOE drench1297 drenklec1330 to go downa1475 replunge1611 submerge1652 swamp1795 to go under1820 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > submerge or travel under water (of submarine) dive1872 submerge1903 crash-dive1928 to do a porpoise1929 snort1953 1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 123 A Cork sometimes elevateth it self, and then submergeth under the water. 1694 W. Leybourn Pleasure with Profit iv. 9 Solid Magnitudes that are Lighter than the Liquid, being demitted into the [settled] Liquid, will not totally Submerge in the same. 1706 E. Baynard in J. Floyer Psychrolousia (ed. 2) 173 After some time to try the Cold Bath upon the accession of the Fit, just to submerge, and so out. 1808 Gentleman's Mag. 78 670/2 Some say, they [sc. swallows] submerge in ponds. 1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis I. 48 He submerged, and we lost sight of him. 1903 A. H. Burgoyne Submarine Navigation II. 162 Having reached the ‘limit of visibility’ it becomes necessary to submerge. 1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 149 We submerge in turn, holding to the rope, being clutched by one another. 1958 J. Lewis in C. S. Lewis Lett. to Amer. Lady (1969) 72 He comes up for air now and then, blows a few pathetic bubbles, then submerges again. 2009 Esquire Mar. 144/3 We could only see his head, floating there, with a cigarette clamped between his lips, soon extinguished as he submerged completely. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1490
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