transitive verb submerged, submerging
- to place under or cover with water or the like; plunge into water, inundate, etc.
- to cover over; suppress; hide
- to sink below a decent level of life: the submerged people of the slums
Origin:
L submergere < sub-, under + mergere, to plunge: see merge
intransitive verb
to sink or plunge beneath the surface of water, etc.