Submergence

3 definitions found

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

  Submergence \Sub*mer"gence\, n. [From L. submergens, p. pr.]
     The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged;
     submersion.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  submergence
       n : sinking until covered completely with water [syn: {submerging},
            {submersion}, {immersion}]

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

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "submergence":
     baptism, breaking water, burial, cadence, catenary, concavity,
     crash dive, de-escalation, debasement, decline, decurrence,
     degradation, demotion, depression, descent, detrusion, diminution,
     dip, dipping, displacement, dive, dousing, draft, droop, duck,
     ducking, dunking, engulfment, hauling down, hollowness, immergence,
     immersion, inundation, lapse, lowering, reduction, running dive,
     sag, sinkage, sinking, slump, souse, sousing, stationary dive,
     submersion, subsidence, surfacing, swag, thrusting under