submerge
verb (used with object)
to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
were 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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The great chute, lined with moving water walls and floored with whirling foam, bellowed as if it were submerging the world.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
It seemed to her that the rain and the river, confounding their tumultuous waters, were submerging the frail house, the planks of which creaked in every direction.
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne
We were submerging, and the manometer showed seventeen meters.
From The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative by E. Spiegel
