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submergence

/suhb-murj/US // səbˈmɜrdʒ //UK // (səbˈmɜːdʒ) //

浸没,淹没,沉没,浸没度

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    sub·merged, sub·merg·ing.

    • : to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
    • : to cover or overflow with water; immerse.
    • : to cover; bury; subordinate; suppress: His aspirations were submerged by the necessity of making a living.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sub·merged, sub·merg·ing.

    • : to sink or plunge under water or beneath the surface of any enveloping medium.
    • : to be covered or lost from sight.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inoverflow

Examples

  • These new places may not get submerged, but for the villagers, they are equally toxic.

  • These semi-aquatic herbivores are well-equipped for spending hours each day in the water—their nostrils and eyes located so high on their head that they can breathe and see while mostly submerged.

  • The resulting pictures feature both single-hue expanses and half-submerged colors that glimmer below the surface like metallic gravel under a stream.

  • In place of a wet, oil-based lube, you submerge the chain in a heated paraffin bath that penetrates into the chain just like oil does.

  • Once your showerhead is securely submerged, leave it soaking for 15 minutes before rinsing with cold water.

  • Neither tree nor bush grew upon it; their absence indicating that it was subject to annual submergence in the season of rain.

  • The spirit sank to submergence in the body, I remember combating motion like a drugged person.

  • Submergence, deposition of Cambrian formations; slight oscillations during their deposition; reduction of land to baselevel.

  • Perhaps it were better stated that submergence was complete in the basins in which Weverton sandstone now appears.

  • An overlap proves that a gradual submergence of the land was going on at the time the strata were being accumulated.