I reached over and switched off the light, submersing the room in complete darkness.Įarly 17th century, from the Latin submergere, from sub- ( under) + mergere ( to dip). There’s also an entity known as trench foot, which actually is caused by submersing your feet, literally, in cold water for long periods of time. In his second term, of course, Houdini submersed himself in a padlocked iron cage a mile deep in boiling water and left his fate to a gaggle of witches, a silly young intern, and Inspector Javerts. Our job is to improvise the fifth act by submersing ourselves in the first four acts. If it’s a choice between Sullivan getting his way and submersing my kids in this sort of culture, and Sullivan leaving, then I will bid Sullivan goodbye. “Submerged plants are rooted plants with flaccid or limp stems and most of their vegetative mass is below the water surface, although small portions may stick above the water” ( Texas A&M).Ĭompletely submerged water plants like seagrasses and pondweed ( Elodea canadensis) lack stomata.Īerenchyma is the most common example of a submersed aquatic plant.
“The few public tributes to Nat Turner in the mainstream black press of the late 1950s submerged the armed rebellion within a narrative of nonviolent protest” ( French). She submerged the pieces of chicken in the broth. His aspirations were submerged by the necessity of making a living. The tensions submerged earlier in the campaign now came to the fore. Houses had been flooded and cars submerged. Just as I shot at it, the crocodile submerged again. The submarine submerged quickly to avoid detection. Denoting or characteristic of a plant growing entirely underwater Cause to be under water or another liquid
Navy, is in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Testing for HEED, 8 July 2005, San Diego, California, US Navy 050708-N-9500T-076 photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Scott Taylor, U.S. Subscribe to KD Did It, if you’d like to track this post for future updates.Ĭredit to: Apple : submerge The Free Dictionary: submerge : submerse If you found this post on “Submerge versus Submerse” interesting, consider tweeting it to your friends. I’m hoping you’ll share with us words that have been a bête noir for you from either end. It evolved into a sharing of information with y’all. …started as my way of dealing with a professional frustration with properly spelled words that were out of context in manuscripts I was editing as well as books I was reviewing. Instead, as an adjective, submerse describes where a particular type of plant grows.Įssentially, be careful to describe plants that grow underwater as submerged plants, otherwise, go wild, baby! You can submerge or submerse with abandon! Word Confusions… Then there’s the adjectival form of submerse…which does not apply to submerge.
Yep, I’d say that there isn’t a difference between the verb forms, well, other than that submerge is both an intransitive and transitive verb while submerse is only a transitive verb. I had to laugh when I saw that the verb definition for submerse was to submerge. It took me aback, and I thought…hmmm, shouldn’t this be submerged? And a word confusion was born… This particular one claimed it could be used outdoors in the wet but it couldn’t be submersed. I ran across submerge versus submerse when I was trying to find full sheets of sticky paper.