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- 1. submerge: "pellets were then submersed in agar"
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To submerse is to go below the surface of water. When you watch a seabird submerse, you see it dive completely under water, probably so that it can catch a fish.
verb. sub· merse səb-ˈmərs. submersed; submersing. Synonyms of submerse. transitive verb. : submerge. submersion. səb-ˈmər-zhən. -shən. noun. Synonyms. deluge. drown. engulf. flood. gulf. inundate. overflow. overwhelm. submerge. swamp. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of submerse in a Sentence.
Submerse definition: to submerge. . See examples of SUBMERSE used in a sentence.
SUBMERSE definition: → submerge | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
1. To plunge briefly in or into a liquid: dip, douse, duck, dunk, immerge, immerse, souse, submerge. 2. To go beneath the surface or to the bottom of a liquid: founder, sink, submerge. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Origin of Submerse. Probably back-formation from submersion act of submerging from Late Latin submersiō submersiōn- from Latin submersus past participle of submergere to submerge submerge.
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There is one meaning in OED's entry for the verb submerse. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
[intransitive, transitive] to go under the surface of water or liquid; to put something or make something go under the surface of water or liquid. The submarine had had time to submerge before the warship could approach. be submerged (by something) The fields had been submerged by floodwater.
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