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Synonyms of submerge in English:

submerge


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verb

1‘the U-boat would have had time to submerge’

SYNONYMS
go under water, dive, sink, plunge, plummet, drop, go down
ANTONYMS

surface

2‘half submerge the bowl in a large saucepan of hot water’

SYNONYMS
immerse, dip, plunge, duck, dunk, sink

3‘when the farmland was submerged many sheep were lost’

SYNONYMS
flood, inundate, deluge, engulf, swamp, immerse, drown
overflow, pour over

4‘I've been completely submerged in work for the past two months’

SYNONYMS
overwhelm, inundate, deluge, swamp, bury, engulf, swallow up, consume, snow under, overload, overburden

5‘a healthy return to old values which had been submerged’

SYNONYMS
hide, conceal, veil, cloak, repress, suppress