submerged
part of speech
adjective (submerged); verb (submerge, submerges, submerged, submerging — past form)
meaning for a pupil
1) Submerged means under water or under the surface of a liquid. tree →
2) Submerged is the past form of submerge: to go under water, or to push something under water. tree →
3) (figurative) Submerged can mean hidden or buried by other things. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons submerged objects show floating and sinking and how water pushes up (upthrust); measuring water rise when an object is submerged gives its volume. Submerged plants live under water in ponds. In stories, floods submerge towns. Phrases: fully submerged, partly submerged, submerged rocks.
examples
- The rock was submerged at high tide. tree →
- We submerged the cube in water to find its volume. tree →
- The submarine submerged and disappeared. tree →
- Floods submerged the fields and roads. tree →
- Pondweed is a submerged plant. tree →
- The hippo stayed submerged with only its eyes showing. tree →
- Her quiet voice was submerged by the noise of the crowd. tree →
- The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged. tree →
note
The prefix «sub» means «under». In maths and science: when an object is fully submerged, the water level rises by the object's volume (if the container doesn't overflow). Spelling: submerging drops the e.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «submerged» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.