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submerging

ADJECTIVE
sinking
Synonyms


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"Chiedza tried to climb on her cousin's shoulders, submerging her."

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

In 2022, a 30-metre-high garbage heap at a landfill in West Java's Cipayung triggered a landslide that entered a river, submerging a bridge to the neighbouring village.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

But it quickly caught fire on social media, where users have posted videos of themselves drinking a whole cup or submerging entire burritos in it.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 18, 2025

For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.

From Salon May 11, 2025

Leviathans as big as palaces, harnessed to pontoons to keep them from submerging to their freedom.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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