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submergence

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sub·merge  (sb-mûrj)
v. sub·merged, sub·merg·ing, sub·merg·es
v.tr.
1. To place under water.
2. To cover with water; inundate.
3. To hide from view; obscure.
v.intr.
To go under or as if under water.
[Latin submergere : sub-, sub- + mergere, to plunge.]
sub·mergence n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.submergencesubmergence - sinking until covered completely with water
immersion, submerging, submersion
sinking - a descent as through liquid (especially through water); "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic"
dip - a brief immersion
Translations
submergence [səbˈmɜːdʒəns] N → sumersión f, sumergimiento m, hundimiento m


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She had accepted this submergence as philosophically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.
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The sanctity seemed no less clearly marked than the learning, for when Dorothea was impelled to open her mind on certain themes which she could speak of to no one whom she had before seen at Tipton, especially on the secondary importance of ecclesiastical forms and articles of belief compared with that spiritual religion, that submergence of self in communion with Divine perfection which seemed to her to be expressed in the best Christian books of widely distant ages, she found in Mr.
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