submerge
verb (used with object)
to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
was submerging
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past progressiveof submerge.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Weinberg sometimes had the impression that Hammons was submerging his identity in Matta-Clark’s.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
I realize now I was submerging all my problems in the Beatles.
From Time Magazine Archive
One thought was submerging all others under a mounting wave of triumphant joy: Colonel Adam, the father of the princess of heart's delight, was neither a devil in human guise nor a homicidal madman.
From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde
So Leo put down the Manicheans and preserved the unity of the faith, which was of immeasurable importance in the sea of anarchies which at that time was submerging all the traditions of the past.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by John Lord
Just now it was submerging in an ocean of new emotion he was powerless to deny.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum
