submersion

[ UK /səbmˈɜːʃən/ ]
[ US /səbˈmɝʒən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of wetting something by submerging it
  2. sinking until covered completely with water
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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.
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