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verb

Submerge v. t. (past & past part. submerged; pres. part. submerging)

To put under water; to plunge.

To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. "I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged."

Submerge v. i. To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included. "Some say swallows submerge in ponds."

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Etymology of 'Submerge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Submerge" Quotes from Famous Books

... politics. Bad as the corruption is in some cases among the foreigners, when votes are bought at two dollars to five dollars, the point has not yet been reached when a carpet-bag gang of boarding-house floaters and saloon heelers can be transferred from a secure ward to a doubtful ward and so submerge the political rights of ...

— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... than they usually were, and there was altogether an air and manner about him, as if he were moved to some purpose which of itself was sufficiently important to submerge in its consequences all ordinary risks and all ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... and I at once conjectured that another submarine was rising to the surface in pursuit of us; but presently it became apparent that the level of the waters was rising, not with extreme rapidity, but very surely, and that soon they would overflow the sides of the pool and submerge the floor of ...

— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... his verse, sounding its last fanfare, lifting its last great poet above the Christianity which was soon entirely to submerge the language, and which would forever be sole master of art. The new Christian spirit arose with Paulinus, disciple of Ausonius; Juvencus, who paraphrases the gospels in verse; Victorinus, author of the Maccabees; ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... you cabled to me that the United States would send ever-increasing forces, until the day should be reached on which the Allied armies were able to submerge the enemy under an overwhelming flow of new divisions; and, in effect, for more than a year a steady stream of youth and energy has been poured out upon the ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

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