submersion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sub=mer=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

submersion, n. [L. submersio: cf. F. submersion.].

•  The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

submersion

absorbed attention, absorption, affusion, alluvion, alluvium, application, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, cataclysm, concentration, contemplation, dampening, damping, deep study, deep thought, deluge, dewing, dip, dipping, displacement, dousing, draft, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, engagement, engrossment, engulfment, flood, flooding, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immergence, immersion, intentness, inundation, involvement, irrigation, laving, meditation, moistening, monomania, obsession, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, preoccupation, profound thought, rapt attention, rinsing, single-mindedness, sinkage, sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spattering, spill, spillage, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, studiousness, study, submergence, swashing, the Deluge, the Flood, washout, watering, wetting, whelming

ROGET THESAURUS

submersion

Depth

N depth, deepness, profundity, depression, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer, deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep, beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain.

Insertion

N insertion, implantation, introduction, insinuation, planting injection, inoculation, importation, infusion, forcible ingress, immersion, submersion, submergence, dip, plunge, bath, interment, clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement, inserted.