submerge
/səbˈməːdʒ
/verb [with object]
1Cause (something) to be under water: houses had been flooded and cars submerged...
- A sheet of glass was blown out of one window, the car park was submerged and water gradually rose up the main steps.
- Her claim for damages was still under consideration by City Hall when yesterday morning's flood waters submerged her home.
- The road was submerged as flood water rose in the area.
Synonyms
flood, inundate, deluge, engulf, swamp, immerse, drown;
overflow, pour over
1.1 [no object] Descend below the surface of an area of water: the U-boat had had time to submerge...
- Second, as mentioned above, drag forces are considerably higher if the swimmer remains at or near the water surface than if it submerges during swimming.
- It surfaces, submerges, throws torpedoes in the water, hits its targets, and then continues on its quality mission.
- Smiling wickedly, he parted her long legs and submerged under the frothy surface of the water.
Synonyms
go under water, dive, sink, plunge, plummet, drop, go down
1.2Completely cover or obscure: the tensions submerged earlier in the campaign now came to the fore...
- In the multipolar world that has ensued from the end of the Cold War, submerged tensions between the US and Europe have come out into the open.
- A dear friend's wedding can stir up all kinds of submerged emotions and, crucially, a sense that life is, indeed, moving forward, whether you're ready for it or not.
- After not getting the pleasure he requires from his only love he turns to Banquo who up till now has kept his feelings submerged.
Synonyms
hide, conceal, veil, cloak, repress, suppress
Derivatives
submergence
- The long-dreaded monsoon submergence of tribal villages in the Narmada Valley upstream from the massive Sardar Sarovar dam is under way.
- At this height, submergence threatens 12,000 families.
- Italians contemplate the submergence of their political culture and think: good riddance.
submergible
- This fuzzy algae is working like submergible plants.
- Materials for fabricating the second submergible instrument box have been ordered.
- The present invention relates to oil-filled protectors for use with submergible electric motors and, more particularly, for use with electric submergible motors to be suspended within wellbores.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin submergere, from sub- 'under' + mergere 'to dip'.
Rhymes
- pearl moss
- pearl mussel
- pearl necklace
- pearl onion
- pearl opal
- pearl organ
- pearl oyster
- pearl perch
- pearl plant
- pearl powder
- pearl-powdered
- pearl purl
- Pearl River
- pearl sago
- pearl shell
- pearl-sheller
- pearl shelling
- pearl-side
- pearlsides
- pearl sinter
- pearls of Spain
- pearl spar
- pearlstone
- pearlware
- pearl wedding