Submerged

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Submerge \Sub*merge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Submerged}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Submerging}.] [L. submergere, submersum; sub under +
     mergere to plunge: cf. F. submerger. See {Merge}.]
     1. To put under water; to plunge.
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     2. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to
        drown.
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              I would thou didst,
              So half my Egypt were submerged.      --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  submerged
       adj 1: under water; e.g. at the bottom of a body of water; "sunken
              treasure"; "a sunken ship" [syn: {sunken}] [ant: {afloat(p)},
               {aground(p)}]
       2: beneath the surface of the water; "submerged rocks" [syn: {submersed},
           {underwater}]
       3: growing or remaining under water; "viewing subaqueous fauna
          from a glass-bottomed boat"; "submerged leaves" [syn: {subaqueous},
           {subaquatic}, {submersed}, {underwater}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "submerged":
     awash, bathed, behind the curtain, behind the scenes,
     between the lines, buried, camouflaged, concealed, covert, cryptic,
     debased, delitescent, deluged, depressed, dipped, disguised,
     dormant, downcast, downthrown, drenched, dribbling, dripping,
     dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, esoteric, fallen, flooded,
     hibernating, hidden, immersed, imperceptible, indiscernible,
     insensible, inundated, invisible, latent, low, lowered, lurking,
     macerated, muffled, mystic, obfuscated, obscured, occult, oozing,
     out of sight, overflowed, permeated, possible, potential,
     prostrate, reduced, saturated, secret, seeping, sightless,
     sleeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy,
     sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, subaqueous,
     submarine, submersed, sunk, sunken, swamped, unapparent, unbeheld,
     unbeholdable, under the surface, underlying, undersea, underwater,
     undiscernible, unmanifested, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable,
     unperceived, unrealized, unseeable, unseen, unviewed, unwitnessed,
     veiled, viewless, virtual, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping,
     weltering, whelmed, wringing wet