Noun
The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.
The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBeyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations. Amy Goodman
In the account given to Solon by the Egyptian priests, of the submersion of the island of Atlantis under the waters of the ocean, after repeated shocks of an earthquake, we find that the event happened when Jupiter had seen the moral depravity of the inhabitants. Charles Lyell
The elevating of the bottom of the sea, the sinking and submersion of the land, and most of the inequalities of the earth's surface, might, he said, be accounted for by the agency of these subterranean causes. Charles Lyell
Amid the pandemic, Erdogan’s government completed the submersion of the ancient over 10,000-year-old city of Hasankeyf, a UNESCO world heritage site, underwater to build a dam. Source: Internet
Before its submersion into a sanitary tunnel, Pogue's Run was included into the plan, disrupting the rectilinear street grid to the southeast. Source: Internet
During periods of submersion, thick layers of limestone were laid down over the old igneous and metamorphic rock. Source: Internet