Submerge

Definition: Submerge

Submerge

Verb

1. Sink below the surface; go under or as if under water.

2. Cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech".

3. Put under water; "submerge your head completely".

4. Fill or cover completely, usually with water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "submerge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)

Synonyms: Submerge

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Plunge

Submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom.

Water

Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.

Crosswords: Submerge

Books

• Submerge!: The Story of Divers and Their Crafts (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Instrumentalmusik: Instrumental Music...to Submerge in...and Disappear Through (reference)

• Tetragramaton: Submerge (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Gabon

Using the PDG as a tool to submerge the regional and tribal rivalries that have divided Gabonese politics in the past, Bongo sought to forge a single national movement in support of the government's development policies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "submerge": re-submerge.

Albanian

zhyt (dip, dive, immerse, plunge, steepen), zhys (dip, dive, immerse, plunge), përmbyt (deluge, drown, flood, inundate, overflow, submerse, swamp, waterlog), fut (accept, cram into, drive, drive in, embed, engrain, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, take on, thrust, tuck, usher in), fundosem (founder, sink, subside). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, suffuse, swamp, wash), ‏غوص (bog, dive, diving, draught, pearl fishery, pitch, plunge, sink, submergence), ‏غطس (dip, dive, douse, duck, immerse, immersion, plunge, plunk, sink), ‏تغطس الغواصة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гмурвам (submerse), потъвам (be engulfed, be lost, go down, go under, lock, plunge, sink, submerse, subside), потопявам (immerse, inundate, send down, sink, sop, submerse, swamp, wreck). (various references)

Chinese 

泅 (swim under water), 泯 (obliterate), 沉 (deep, immerse, profound, sink, to drop, to lower), 淊 (drown, tears), 淹�' (flush), 淹没 (Deluged, Deluging, Drown, Drowned, Drowning, Overwhelm, overwhelmed, Overwhelming, submerged, submerging), 淹 (drown). (various references)

Czech

zaplavit (flood, glut, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, snow under, suffuse), ponořit se (delve, dip, dive, duck, immerse, plunge). (various references)

Farsi 

پوشاندن (Apparel, Blanket, Camouflage, Case, Clothe, Coat, Cover, Emboss, Envelop, Immerse, Jacket, Line, Mask, Overcast, Sheath, Sheathe, Shroud, Suffuse, Veil), مخفی کردن (Camouflage, Huddle, Occult, Stow), غوطه ورساختن (Abyss, Engulf, Overwhelm, Plunge), زیراب کردن (Immerse). (various references)

Finnish

sukeltaa (dive, plunge), painua (collapse, droop, drop, settle, sink), mennä sukelluksiin. (various references)

French

submerger, s'immerger, se plonger, inonder, immerger. (various references)

German

untertauchen (disappear, dive, dive under, duck, go underground, immerse, immersion, lie up, plunge, sink, submergence). (various references)

Greek 

καλύπτω με ύδωρ (submerse), καταδύω (merge, plunge, submerse), καταδύομαι (dive, merge, plunge, submerse), βυθίζω (dip, founder, immerse, plunge, sink, submerse), βυθίζομαι (cave, go under, sink, slump, submerse), βουτώ (dip, dive, douse, duck, immerse, pick pockets, pinch, plunge, sop, steal, steep, submerse, take a dive). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשקע (drown, put in, set down, sink), לטבע (drown, sink). (various references)

Hungarian

elmerít (to submerge), elmerül (dive, go under, immerse, merge, to dip, to founder, to merge, to settle down, to slump, to submerge), alámerít (immerse, plunge, to plunge, to souse), alámerül (dived, dove, sank, sub, sunk, to dive, to sink, to souse). (various references)

Indonesian

rendam (soak), merendam (soak, steep), menyelam (dive, diving, duck, immerse), di bawah permukaan air. (various references)

Italian

sommergersi, sommergere (flood, overrun, overwhelm, sink, swamp), immergersi (dip, dive, duck, plunge), immergere (dip, dive, give oneself up, immerse, immerse oneself, plunge, soak, souse, steep). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

水没 , � 水 (flooding). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいぼつ, か�"すい (accomplishment, brackish water, flooding, snoring, sprinkling). (various references)

Korean 

� 수하십시�". (various references)

Manx

thummey (dip, dive, douse, duck; diving, ducking, immerse, immersion, lunge, pitch, plunge, soak, sop, steep, steeping, submersion), goll fo (founder, get under, go under, set), cur fo'n ushtey, baih (drown, elide, elision, flood, inundation, saturate, submersion). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubmergesay

Portuguese

submergir (drown, engulf, immerse, overwhelm, plunge, whelm), mergulhar (dip, dive, drown, immerse, lade, let up fall, plunge, sink), inundar (bury, deluge, drown, flood, inundate, overflow, overrun, overspread, perfuse, run, shower, suffuse, swim, waterlog), imergir (drown, immerse, lade, merge, plunge, soak), afundar (deepen, go under, immerse, scupper, sink, wrack, wreck), afogar (drown, gulp). (various references)

Romanian

scufunda (dip, dive, drown, engulf, founder, run down, send to the bottom, sink, soak, subside, swamp, whelm), potopi (flood, flush, inundate, ravage), inunda (deluge, drown, float, flood, flow, flush, glut, inundate, overflow, overrun, shower, swamp), cufunda în apã (duck), cufunda (Bury, dip, immerse, plunge, sink, steep), afunda (deepen, depress, dip, disappear, dissolve, dive, drench, duck, immerse, sink, soak), adânci (aggravate, Bury, corrode, deepen, delve, excavate, fathom, further, gouge, hole, sound, subside). (various references)

Russian 

погружать (dip, douse, immerse, sank, sink, soused, souses). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaroniti (dive, immerse, sink, submerse), zagnjuriti (douse, duck), potopiti (dip, immerse, sink, sluice, soak, submerse). (various references)

Spanish

sumergir (engulf, immerse, plunge, swamp). (various references)

Swedish

nedsänka, dyka (dive, plunge). (various references)

Turkish

sular altında bırakmak, daldırmak (Bury, dip, Dunk, immerse, layer, plunge), batmak (be in carey street, be on the wane, be swamped with, belly up, break, burst up, cave, crash, decline, dip, fail, founder, go bankrupt, go down, go over the cliff, go to rack and ruin, go under, gravitate, hang, plunge, set, sink, slide into, swim like a brick, wane), batırmak (bankrupt, break, bring to ruin, dip, immerse, jab, plunge, prickle, ruin, sink, stick, swamp), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, lap, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, wrap). (various references)

Ukrainian

затоплювати (deluge, inundate, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, sink, snow under, submerse), занурювати у воду. (various references)

Welsh

soddi (sink). (various references)

consepulti, sepelevit, sepeli, sepeliam, sepeliant, sepelias, sepeliat, sepeliebas, sepeliebat, sepeliendos, sepeliendum, sepelient, sepelientes, sepelientibus, sepelientur, sepelieris, sepelieritis, sepelierunt, sepelieruntque, sepelies, sepeliet, sepelietur, sepelire, sepelirent, sepeliret, sepelis, sepelissent, sepelistis, sepelite, sepelivi, sepelivit, sepulta, sepulto, sepultos, sepultura, sepulturae, sepulturam, sepulturaque, sepulturas, sepultus, sepultusque, submergetur, submerserunt, submersi. (various references)

fondrer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "submerge": submerged, submergence, submergences, submerges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Submerge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esjberg, Scumbergh, submer, submerg, sumere. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: burgees, embrues.

-2 letters: begums, bemuse, bermes, brumes, burgee, embers, embrue, grebes, grumes, merges, resume, umbers.

-3 letters: beers, begum, bergs, berme, berms, brees, brume, burgs, burse, egers, ember, emeus, germs, geums, grebe, grees, grubs, grues, grume, meres, merge, mures, muser, rebus, reges, reuse, rubes, sebum, segue, serge, serum, suber, surge, umber, urges.

-4 letters: beer, bees.

+1 letter: submerged, submerges.

+3 letters: submergence, submergible.

+4 letters: humbuggeries, submergences.

+5 letters: subgovernment.