submerge
submerge 英 [səbˈmɜ:dʒ] 美 [səbˈmɜrdʒ]
v. 淹没，湮没；潜入水中
进行时:submerging 过去式:submerged 过去分词:submerged 第三人称单数:submerges 名词复数:submerges
- When you go swimming, you submerge your body in water. If your head is out of the water, it is not submerged — it's just wet.
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- v. 淹没，湮没；潜入水中
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1. The submarine has time to submerge before the warship could approach.
潜水艇没等军舰靠近就及时潜入水下了。
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2. The fields had been submerged by floodwater.
农田被洪水淹没了。
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3. Doubts that had been submerged in her mind suddenly resurfaced.
她心里早已湮灭的疑团突然又浮现出来。
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4. Her submerged car was discovered in the river by police divers.
她被河水淹没的汽车给警方的潜水员找到了。
- submerge (v.) c. 1600 (transitive), from French submerger (14c.) or directly from Latin submergere "to plunge under, sink, overwhelm," from sub "under" (see sub-) + mergere "to plunge, immerse" (see merge). Intransitive meaning "sink under water, sink out of sight" is from 1650s, made common 20c. in connection with submarines. Related: Submerged; submerging.
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