submerged; submerging
1
: to put under water
2
: to cover or overflow with water
3
: to make obscure or subordinate : suppress
personal lives submerged by professional responsibilities
: to go under water
Examples of submerge in a Sentence
After boiling the broccoli, submerge it in ice water to stop the cooking process.
The town was submerged by the flood.
We watched as the divers prepared to submerge.
She's a marvelous actress who submerges herself totally in her roles.
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In the past couple of years, archaeologists have also been working to uncover an 8,000-year-old stilt village, said to be the oldest of its kind in Europe, submerged in the lake.
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2025
Then in the 1920s, the entire area was flooded by dams, submerging all hope for it.
—Nicole Mowbray, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
The large round bowl slipped from my hands, the plastic wrap blew off, and the contents fell into the middle of this aforementioned grassy knoll strip, landing face down with the salad submerged into the grass.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
And for the flood that submerged Fort Lauderdale, the agency doled out a whopping $38.9 million to 9,600 residents, as well as another $5.2 million to local governments.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2025
Then in the 1920s, the entire area was flooded by dams, submerging all hope for it.
—Nicole Mowbray, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
The large round bowl slipped from my hands, the plastic wrap blew off, and the contents fell into the middle of this aforementioned grassy knoll strip, landing face down with the salad submerged into the grass.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
And for the flood that submerged Fort Lauderdale, the agency doled out a whopping $38.9 million to 9,600 residents, as well as another $5.2 million to local governments.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for submerge
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“Submerge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/submerge. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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submerge
verb
sub·merge
səb-ˈmərj 
submerged; submerging
1
: to put or go underwater
the whale submerged
2
: to cover or become covered with or as if with water
floods submerged the town
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