inundate, deluge, submerge
(verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water
submerge, drown, overwhelm
(verb) cover completely or make imperceptible; “I was drowned in work”; “The noise drowned out her speech”
submerge, submerse
(verb) put under water; “submerge your head completely”
submerge, submerse
(verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
Source: WordNet® 3.1
submerge (third-person singular simple present submerges, present participle submerging, simple past and past participle submerged)
(intransitive) To sink out of sight.
(transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
Synonym: immerse
(transitive, figurative) To be engulfed in or overwhelmed by something.
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Source: Wiktionary
Sub*merge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Submerged; p. pr. & vb. n. Submerging.] Etym: [L. submergere, submersum; sub under + mergere to plunge: cf. F. submerger. See Merge.]
1. To put under water; to plunge.
2. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. Shak.
Sub*merge", v. i.
Definition: To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included. Some say swallows submerge in ponds. Gent. Mag.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
