submergence

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
submergence
    n 1: sinking until covered completely with water [syn:
         {submergence}, {submerging}, {submersion}, {immersion}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Submergence \Sub*mer"gence\, n. [From L. submergens, p. pr.]
   The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged;
   submersion.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "submergence":
      baptism, breaking water, burial, cadence, catenary, concavity,
      crash dive, de-escalation, debasement, decline, decurrence,
      degradation, demotion, depression, descent, detrusion, diminution,
      dip, dipping, displacement, dive, dousing, draft, droop, duck,
      ducking, dunking, engulfment, hauling down, hollowness, immergence,
      immersion, inundation, lapse, lowering, reduction, running dive,
      sag, sinkage, sinking, slump, souse, sousing, stationary dive,
      submersion, subsidence, surfacing, swag, thrusting under
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