Synonyms for submerge
Definitions
- v. 1
To sink out of sight.
The submarine submerged in the water.
- v. 2
To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
In films, many people are murdered by being submerged in swimming pools.
Related words
- Word family
- submergeable submergence submergible submersion
Forms
- Past participle
- submerged
e.g. submerged → drowned, overwhelmed, soaked, dipped…
Choose the right word
To dip and to immerse alike signify to bury or submerge some object in a liquid; but dip implies that the object dipped is at once removed from the liquid, while immerse is wholly silent as to the removal. Submerge implies that the object can not readily be removed, if at all; as, a submerged wreck.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- dip Hummus is a dip or spread made from chickpeas.
- drown Our worries don't drown in alcohol. They can swim.
- soak You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water.
- overwhelm Do you find first dates enjoyable or do they overwhelm you?
- swamp The mango tree at the taro swamp is full of fruit.
By length
- 3 letters
- dip1
- 4 letters
- sink1, soak1, dunk1
- 5 letters
- flood1, steep1, merge1, swamp1, drown1, douse1, souse, whelm
- 6 letters
- plunge1, deluge2, engulf2, drench1
- 7 letters
- immerse2
- 8 letters
- overflow3, inundate3, submerse2
- 9 letters
- overwhelm3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deluge2 = 2 syllables).