submergence
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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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.
Other Word Forms
- nonsubmergence noun
Etymology
Origin of submergence
Example Sentences
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They found that a full week of complete submergence during the plant's growth cycle is the critical tipping point.
From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2025
“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
“So this was trying to apply aviation thinking to a deep submergence engineering problem. And we all said this was a flawed idea.”
From Seattle 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
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
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