| 单词 |
submersion |
| 释义 |
submersion|səbˈmɜːʃən|
[ad. L. submersio, -ōnem, n. of action f. submergĕre, -mers- to submerge. Cf. F. submersion, It. sommersione, Sp. sumersion, etc.]
The action of submerging or condition of being submerged; plunging into, sinking under, or flooding with water; occas. drowning.
1611Cotgr., Submersion, a submersion, plunging, sinking. 1653Ramesey Astrol. Restored 309 Many shipwracks and submersions of ships. 1692Ray Disc. (1732) 242 The Submersion of the vast Island of Atlantis. 1781Cowper Retirem. 584 All had long suppos'd him dead, By cold submersion, razor, rope, or lead. 1793tr. Buffon's Hist. Birds VI. 471 The submersion of Swallows appears by no means ascertained. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 196 Half a pound of alum to every pint of water, which may be deemed necessary for the entire submersion of the article to be heated. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. ii. (1858) 144 Preserved by the salt with which a long submersion in those strange waters has impregnated them. 1910Encycl. Brit. (ed. 11) III. 365 The earliest literary notices of baptism are far from conclusive in favour of submersion. |
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