Word Meanings - SUBMERGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To put under water; to plunge. 2. To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBMERGE)

• Immerse
• Dip
• plunge
• sink
• soak
• steep
• macerate
• duck
• submerge
• drown
• inundate
• douse
• overwhelm
• Inundate
• Overflow
• deluge
• flood
• Irrigate
• Water
• wet
• Plunge
• dive
• immerse
• precipitate
• thrust under
• pitch headlong
• Sink
• Fall
• descend
• drop
• subside
• penetrate
• droop
• decline
• weary
• flag
• decay
• decrease
• diminish
• abate
• lower
• depress
• degrade
• reduce
• attenuate
• suppress

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUBMERGE)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• aggrandize
• elevate
• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to SUBMERGE)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• WATERWORT
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WATER SHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.