Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Covered with water.
  • adjective Botany Submersed.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of submerge.
  • adjective underwater
  • adjective below the surface of a liquid
  • adjective hidden
  • adjective poor, impoverished

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

  • adjective beneath the surface of the water
  • adjective growing or remaining under water

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Examples

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005 2005

  • The final group of policies, what I call the "submerged state," is largely invisible because its benefits are channeled through the tax code and subsidies to private organizations.

    NYT > Home Page By SUZANNE METTLER 2011

  • The final group of policies, what I call the "submerged state," is largely invisible because its benefits are channeled through the tax code and subsidies to private organizations.

    NYT > Home Page By SUZANNE METTLER 2011

  • Town-gown tensions between students and academics on the one hand and blue-collar residents on the other, tend to remain submerged beneath the surface of everyday life until a minor incident at a neighborhood bar located near a campus flares up.

    Gritty City Creates Knowledge Zone, But Some Feel Left Out Con Chapman 2010

  • Whatever the case, they remain submerged in the archives from 1731 until Gerrit Gerritsz and Abraham surfaced in 1743 opgaaf, and the rest of the children upon their marriages.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Since ice is less dense than dissolved ice (water), any increase in submerged sea ice will result in an increase of sea levels of greater proportion than mere melting.

    Think Progress » Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science 2006

  • Since ice is less dense than dissolved ice (water), any increase in submerged sea ice will result in an increase of sea levels of greater proportion than mere melting.

    Think Progress » Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science 2006

  • In emergency, it can remain submerged for 24 hours.

    What Is the Navy Doing? 1942

  • Reptiles are slightly harder to love, if only because they're often hiding or submerged, which is why the relationship between the Capalino family and their turtle, a Red-eared Slider named Skipperdee, is noteworthy.

    Keeping Skipperdee Afloat Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • While protest activity subsided during 1998 – 1999, new radical peace initiatives were developed in what Melucci (1989) has characterized as submerged networks in everyday life.

    Peace Movements in Israel. 2009

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