submerge

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: sub=merge

CIDE DICTIONARY

submerge, v. t. [L. submergere, submersum; sub under + mergere to plunge: cf. F. submerger. See Merge.].

•  To put under water; to plunge.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.  [1913 Webster]

  "I would thou didst,
  So half my Egypt were submerged."  [1913 Webster]

submerge, v. i. 

 To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.  [1913 Webster]
"Some say swallows submerge in ponds."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

submerge, v.
1 tr. a place under water; flood; inundate. b flood or inundate with work, problems, etc.
2 intr. (of a submarine, its crew, a diver, etc.) dive below the surface of water.

Idiom

the submerged tenth the supposed fraction of the population permanently living in poverty.

Derivative

submergence n. submergible adj. submersion n.

Etymology

L submergere (as SUB-, mergere mers- dip)

THESAURUS

submerge

baptize, break water, bury, camouflage, cave, cave in, cloak, conceal, decline, deluge, descend, dip, dive, douse, drench, droop, drown, duck, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flood negative, flood the tanks, flop, flop down, flow on, flump, flump down, founder, give way, go below, go down, go under, hide, immerge, immerse, impregnate, inundate, lapse, lower, merge, obscure, overflow, overwhelm, plop, plop down, plummet, plump, plunge, plunge in water, pour on, rain, rig for diving, sag, saturate, set, settle, settle down, shroud, sink, sink down, slouch, sluice, slump, slump down, soak, sound, souse, submerse, subside, surface, swag, swamp, veil, wash, wet, whelm

ROGET THESAURUS

submerge

Destruction

VB be destroyed, perish, fall to the ground, tumble, topple, go to pieces, fall to pieces, break up, crumble to dust, go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin, go by the board, go all to smash, be all over, be all up, be all with, totter to its fall, destroy, do away with, make away with, nullify, annual, sacrifice, demolish, tear up, overturn, overthrow, overwhelm, upset, subvert, put an end to, seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo, break up, cut up, break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down, suppress, quash, put down, do a job on, cut short, take off, blot out, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, consume, 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, deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut, disorganize, dismantle, devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound, exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate, snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out, lay in the dust, trample in the dust, prostrate, tread under foot, crush under foot, trample under foot, lay the ax to the root of, make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of, cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons, fling to the winds, scatter to the winds, throw overboard, strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword, cast to the dogs, eradicate.

Plunge

VB plunge, dip, souse, duck, dive, plump, take a plunge, take a header, make a plunge, bathe, submerge, submerse, immerse, douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom, get out of one's depth, go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon, founder, welter, wallow.

Water

VB be watery, reek, 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.