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submergence

noun as in dive

noun as in plunge

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These new places may not get submerged, but for the villagers, they are equally toxic.

These semi-aquatic herbivores are well-equipped for spending hours each day in the water—their nostrils and eyes located so high on their head that they can breathe and see while mostly submerged.

The resulting pictures feature both single-hue expanses and half-submerged colors that glimmer below the surface like metallic gravel under a stream.

In place of a wet, oil-based lube, you submerge the chain in a heated paraffin bath that penetrates into the chain just like oil does.

Once your showerhead is securely submerged, leave it soaking for 15 minutes before rinsing with cold water.

Neither tree nor bush grew upon it; their absence indicating that it was subject to annual submergence in the season of rain.

The spirit sank to submergence in the body, I remember combating motion like a drugged person.

Submergence, deposition of Cambrian formations; slight oscillations during their deposition; reduction of land to baselevel.

Perhaps it were better stated that submergence was complete in the basins in which Weverton sandstone now appears.

An overlap proves that a gradual submergence of the land was going on at the time the strata were being accumulated.

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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to submergence, such as: dip, leap, plunge, dash, duck, and ducking.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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