1704 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1324 Several Medicines to this purpose he mentions, and among the rest Lichen Cinereus Terrestris, whose Efficacy depends upon the aforesaid properties, but above all submerging, of which he gives a brief History and a Philosophical account of its operation and success.

1824 Phrenological Jrnl. & Misc. 1 235 Mr Owen, in instituting community of property and equality of rank, contemplates the submerging of justice in benevolence.

1888 P. Schaff Mod. Christian in Hist. Christian Church 219 Faith is the submerging of the old man, and the emerging of the new man.

1913 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 28 123 The social-organism theory leads..to a submerging of the individual.

1983 R. Copeland & M. Cohen What is Dance? iv. 234 That action can best be focused on through the submerging of the personality.

2000 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 12 July 11 It is also possible to pre-pressurise the ballast tanks during the submerging operations.

1765 tr. Voltaire Philos. Dict. 193 They felt a power in the earth, which produced their food,..and another in the consuming fire and the submerging water [Fr. l'eau qui submerge].

1836 A. Herbert Britannia after Romans I. iv. 93 Its immunity from the submerging waters of the Oceanus made the northern wain a just symbol for the Ark.

1882 M. Crommelin Brown-eyes viii Alluvial deposit left there ages ago by the submerging waters.

1917 F. Lynde Stranded in Arcady xx. 226 Like a submerging wave the recollection of all that the heartless joke might have meant to a pair of helpless victims.

1944 Boys' Life May 30 To add to his troubles his voice had developed a peculiar gurgle, reminiscent of a submerging turtle.

2010 E. Bird in Encycl. of World's Coastal Landforms viii. xi. 665/1 The submerging land must have been protected from the open sea by coastal barriers or beach ridges.