Vocabulary Word
Word: submerge
Definition: place under water; dip; go under water; cover completely (as with water); Ex. submerged in work
Definition: place under water; dip; go under water; cover completely (as with water); Ex. submerged in work
Sentences Containing 'submerge'
But this same movement of subsidence will tend to submerge the area whence the sediment is derived, and thus diminish the supply, whilst the downward movement continues.
Changes of level in the land must also have been highly influential: a narrow isthmus now separates two marine faunas; submerge it, or let it formerly have been submerged, and the two faunas will now blend together, or may formerly have blended.
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