submerge
/səbˈmɜːdʒ/verb
with obj.(一般作be submerged)
1- cause to be under water浸没, 淹没：
houses had been flooded and cars submerged.
房子进了水, 汽车浸没在水中。
1.1
- no obj. descend below the surface of an area of water潜入水中, 没入水中：
the U-boat had had time to submerge.
那艘德国潜艇曾有时间潜到水下。
1.2
- completely cover or obscure湮没, 湮灭; 使沉浸：
the tensions submerged earlier in the campaign now came to the fore.
竞选初期湮没的紧张局势现在突现了。
派生词
submergence
nounsubmergible
adjective词源
early 17th cent.: from Latin submergere, from sub- 'under' + mergere 'to dip'.