SUBMERGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does submerging mean? 

• SUBMERGING (noun)
  The noun SUBMERGING has 1 sense:

1. sinking until covered completely with water

  Familiarity information: SUBMERGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBMERGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sinking until covered completely with water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

immersion; submergence; submerging; submersion

Hypernyms ("submerging" is a kind of...):

sinking (a descent as through liquid (especially through water))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "submerging"):

dip (a brief immersion)

Derivation:

submerge (fill or cover completely, usually with water)

submerge (put under water)

submerge (sink below the surface; go under or as if under water)

 Context examples 

Once more the Ghost bore away before the storm, this time so submerging herself that for some seconds I thought she would never reappear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)