Sinking vs Submerge - What's the difference?
sinking | submerge |
The act or process of sinking.
* 1857 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
To sink out of sight.
To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
To be engulfed in or with something.
As verbs the difference between sinking and submerge
is that sinking is while submerge is .As a noun sinking
is the act or process of sinking.sinking
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(head)Derived terms
* like rats from a sinking shipNoun
(en noun)- I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.
- We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district
submerge
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Verb
(submerg)- The submarine submerged in the water.
- In films many people are murdered by being submerged in a swimming pool.
- Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow.