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Submerged

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Botany Growing or remaining under water: submerged leaves.

adj. Living in poverty or misery.

adj. Having been hidden.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Simple past tense and past participle of submerge.

adj. underwater

adj. below the surface of a liquid

adj. hidden

adj. poor, impoverished

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. beneath the surface of the water

adj. growing or remaining under water

Word Usage

"Also, sea planes, when they take off or land, are quite vulnerable to what we call submerged debris, little things in the ocean that might catch on one of the wing floats as you might see on the picture there."

Verb Form

submerged submerges submerging

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

plunge immerse cover spread over flood

Cross Reference

sink submerged bog submerged pump

Form

submergence submersion

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

inundate flood drown sink submerse

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

converge dirge diverge emerge merge

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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