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UK
/səbmˈɜːʃən/
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[ US /səbˈmɝʒən/ ]
[ US /səbˈmɝʒən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
- sinking until covered completely with water
How To Use submersion In A Sentence
- If the joint or crack is in an area that will be subjected to particularly difficult stress, such as continual water submersion at the bottom of a swimming pool, it is important to use a primer before caulking.
- The fruit was preserved by submersion in alcohol.
- The analogy between cerebral protection with deep hypothermia, and cold water submersion, now becomes obvious.
- And one sees this only after having been removed from the sheep-dip that is American corporate media submersion. Steven Weber: The Parallactic View
- The little Pan creatures, symbolic of Capricornus, blow from a seashell to allude further to the submersion. The Poet Prince
- To add to litlove, there are degrees of trauma, loss, resilience, horror, length and depth and submersion. Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room
- What's more it's claimed to survive submersion in water for at least 30 minutes.
- A rise in the Mediterranean sea level and sudden submersion caused by earthquakes or climate changes could explain the annihilation of the cities, he said.
- After long hours of submersion in the sky and the waters, I reached my head forward slowly, my neck muscles sore, to see my own reflection in the water.
- If such a seizure occurs while a person is swimming, the average body density may become higher than the density of the water, causing rapid submersion.