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# submerged

«submerged» in Mova's school dictionary: **under water or under the surface of a liquid** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (submerged); verb (submerge, submerges, submerged, submerging — past form)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Submerged means under water or under the surface of a liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#m1)

2) Submerged is the past form of submerge: to go under water, or to push something under water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#m2)

3) (figurative) Submerged can mean hidden or buried by other things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons submerged objects show floating and sinking and how water pushes up (upthrust); measuring water rise when an object is submerged gives its volume. Submerged plants live under water in ponds. In stories, floods submerge towns. Phrases: fully submerged, partly submerged, submerged rocks.

### examples

- The rock was submerged at high tide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#x1)
- We submerged the cube in water to find its volume. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#x2)
- The submarine submerged and disappeared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#x3)
- Floods submerged the fields and roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#x4)
- Pondweed is a submerged plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#x5)
- The hippo stayed submerged with only its eyes showing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#x6)
- Her quiet voice was submerged by the noise of the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#x7)
- The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/#x8)

### note

The prefix «sub» means «under». In maths and science: when an object is fully submerged, the water level rises by the object's volume (if the container doesn't overflow). Spelling: submerging drops the e.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «submerged» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submerged/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.