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submergence en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion.
The covering up of a complex of apartments on the north-east, and the simultaneous submergence of many floor deposits, mean that Middle Minoan III., like the two preceding periods, was closed by a general catastrophe.
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 84:
Forms
Deriveds
deep-submergence vehicle · resubmergence