submergence

American  

[suhb-mur-juhns] / səbˈmɜr dʒəns /

noun

1. the act of putting or sinking something below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium, or the resulting state.

   This is a record for deepest submergence by a piloted vessel in Indian waters.

2. the act of overflowing and completely covering something with water, or the resulting state.

   Indonesia's coastal areas face the threat of flooding or even submergence due to rises in sea level.

3. the act of burying or suppressing something, or the state of being buried or suppressed.

   The army survives by enormous personal effort and submergence of the individual will for the collective welfare.

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Other Word Forms

• nonsubmergence noun

Etymology

Origin of submergence

submerge ( def. ) + -ence ( def. )

Example Sentences

Initial loss rates were highest for the first hour of submergence for the carpet, fleece and sports vest.

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023

“They’re great for internal-pressure vessels like scuba tanks, for example, but they’re terrible for external pressure, so this was trying to apply aviation thinking to a deep submergence engineering problem.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Industry experts say they were the first known fatalities in more than 60 years of civilian deep-sea submergence.

From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023

But this is a book for deep submergence, not quick flipping.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Still, feeling deeply that his filth was an unforgivable imposition, he’d chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Related Words

• deluge
• flash flood
• overabundance
• torrent