submerge
[verb]
Synonyms: immerse, deluge, dip, duck, engulf, flood, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, plunge, sink, swamp

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Related Words: drench, impregnate, saturate, soak

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sub‧merge /səbˈmɜːdʒ $ -ˈmɜːrdʒ/ verb
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: submergere, from mergere; ⇒ merge]

1.
a) [transitive] to cover something completely with water or another liquid:
The tunnel entrance was submerged by rising sea water.
b) [intransitive] to go under the surface of the water and be completely covered by it:
The submarine submerged.

2. [transitive] to hide feelings, ideas, or opinions and make yourself stop thinking about them Synonym : suppress:
Feelings she thought she’d submerged were surfacing again.

3. submerge yourself in something to make yourself very busy doing something, especially in order to forget about something else:
Alice submerged herself in work to try and forget about Tom.
—submerged adjective:
submerged rocks
—submergence noun [uncountable]

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