See Also: submerged(medicine)
submerged(dictionary)
submerged tonsil(medicine)

submerged (iou)



submerged ppl adjective. L18.
[from SUBMERGE + -ED1.]
Sunk or covered over (as) under water; immersed, inundated; spec. (a) Botany growing entirely under water; (b) (of a submarine etc.) operating below the surface of water.
submerged-arc welding Engineering a method of arc welding with a bare metal electrode in which both arc and electrode tip are covered in a loose flux powder fed to the welding area. submerged tenth the supposed fraction of the population permanently living in poverty.
A. C. Clarke They sank..beneath the summit of the submerged mountain. R. Fraser The..gregarious side of his nature slowly became submerged; he withdrew into himself.