submerge
IPA: sʌbmˈɝdʒ
verb
- (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
- (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
- (transitive, figurative, in the passive voice) To engulf or overwhelm.
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Examples of "submerge" in Sentences
- I felt like I was part of a movement and wanted to submerge myself in gay culture.
- At 17.5 feet, waters begin to submerge Harriet Island Park across the river from downtown.
- Today we merge Washington's birthday with the birthdays of other presidents and submerge them all in clothing and appliance sales.
- Whales have blowholes on the top of their heads because they submerge themselves, and hippos have giant, high placed nostrils for the same reason.
- The style of writing in the Guardian really helps submerge you into the places described, which can also be a great escape from the day's creative chaos.
- In March 2006, he warned that a tsunami could submerge and destroy the diesel engines that pump cooling water to nuclear plants—something that happened at Fukushima Daiichi.
- Even though there is not enough water in the bowl to submerge large deposits, pull the lever and the deposits, loose towels, and a couple of stray cats will all disappear violently.
- Way back in 1966, when he first began assuming leadership of the organization he'd come to re-brand as the Family, he sent out a memo declaring that the time had come to "submerge" the group's public profile.
- History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity...
- Because place is such a major part of my writing and life, I thought it important that Bird Cloud breathe in and out of the landscape, a house subject not only to the wind, but to the drowning shadows that submerge it every evening and the sharp slice of sunlight at the eastern end of the cliff.
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