Submersion

3 definitions found

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

  Submersion \Sub*mer"sion\, n. [L. submersio: cf. F. submersion.]
     1. The act of submerging, or putting under water or other
        fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging
        under water, or of drowning.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of
        being overflowed or drowned.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  submersion
       n 1: sinking until covered completely with water [syn: {submergence},
             {submerging}, {immersion}]
       2: the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: {immersion},
           {ducking}, {dousing}]

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

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "submersion":
     absorbed attention, absorption, affusion, alluvion, alluvium,
     application, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing,
     bedewing, burial, cataclysm, concentration, contemplation,
     dampening, damping, deep study, deep thought, deluge, dewing, dip,
     dipping, displacement, dousing, draft, drowning, duck, ducking,
     dunking, engagement, engrossment, engulfment, flood, flooding,
     hosing, hosing down, humidification, immergence, immersion,
     intentness, inundation, involvement, irrigation, laving,
     meditation, moistening, monomania, obsession, overflow,
     overflowing, overrunning, preoccupation, profound thought,
     rapt attention, rinsing, single-mindedness, sinkage, sinking,
     souse, sousing, sparging, spattering, spill, spillage, splashing,
     splattering, spraying, sprinkling, studiousness, study,
     submergence, swashing, the Deluge, the Flood, washout, watering,
     wetting, whelming