submerged; submerging
1
: to put under water
2
: to cover or overflow with water
3
: to make obscure or subordinate : suppress
personal lives submerged by professional responsibilities
: to go under water
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Examples of submerge in a Sentence
After boiling the broccoli, submerge it in ice water to stop the cooking process.
The town was submerged by the flood.
We watched as the divers prepared to submerge.
She's a marvelous actress who submerges herself totally in her roles.
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Part of the boat was submerged, and no one on board was alive, Police Commissioner James Sutton told The Associated Press.
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
The plane broke into multiple pieces, now submerged in 5-8 feet of water.
—John Feng, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
To start, fill up your sink or a large bowl with several inches of tap water and then place your money tree pot in the water so that the bottom inches of the pot are submerged and the pot rim is well above the water line.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Jan. 2025
Scorching heat could render large parts of the planet uninhabitable, even as coastal cities are submerged beneath rising seas.
—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
The plane broke into multiple pieces, now submerged in 5-8 feet of water.
—John Feng, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
To start, fill up your sink or a large bowl with several inches of tap water and then place your money tree pot in the water so that the bottom inches of the pot are submerged and the pot rim is well above the water line.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Jan. 2025
Scorching heat could render large parts of the planet uninhabitable, even as coastal cities are submerged beneath rising seas.
—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for submerge
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submerge
verb
sub·merge
səb-ˈmərj 
submerged; submerging
1
: to put or go underwater
the whale submerged
2
: to cover or become covered with or as if with water
floods submerged the town
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