It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. In reality we are the perfect ambassadors of the ocean. The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies. Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.

We are the guinea pigs of society when it comes to the what's going on in the oceans, we surfers, we live on the ocean, we literally submerge ourselves, we have ocean water into our ears, eyes and skin. ( immers ) To put under the surface of a liquid to dunk. The sea level rise from Western Antarctica will eventually submerge Hamburg, Shanghai, New York and Hong Kong, you can't negotiate with physics: that's the dilemma here. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going 'Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock! If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. Compare synonyms for BURY.īury, dip, douse, duck, immerge, immerse, plunge, sinkįish are always eating other fish. Dip is used, also, unlike the other words, to denote the putting of a hollow vessel into a liquid in order to remove a portion of it in this sense we say dip up, dip out.

To plunge is to immerse suddenly and violently, for which douse and duck are colloquial terms. dip enter dunk souse sink immerse submerge duck douse Immerge. Here you can see the other names for submerse. Submerge implies that the object can not readily be removed, if at all as, a submerged wreck. Below is the list of synonyms for submerse. Immerse also suggests more absolute completeness of the action one may dip his sleeve or dip a sponge in a liquid, if he but touches the edge if he immerses it, he completely sinks it under, and covers it with the liquid. ( transitive) to overwhelm, as with work, difficulties, etc. ( transitive) to cover with water or some other liquid. To dip and to immerse alike signify to bury or submerge some object in a liquid but dip implies that the object dipped is at once removed from the liquid, while immerse is wholly silent as to the removal. to plunge, sink, or dive or cause to plunge, sink, or dive below the surface of water, etc. Baptists now universally use the word immerse. Discover the different meanings of the word submerge, which terms rhyme with it, words with similar spellings, and much more. To speak of baptism by immersion as dipping now seems rude tho entirely proper and usual in early English. (Note - you also need an ‘as’ in your original quote, as I have shown above).Dip is Saxon, while immerse is Latin for the same initial act dip is accordingly the more popular and commonplace, immerse the more elegant and dignified expression in many cases. ‘We were immersed in Russian for a week, and learned a lot’. This might be good to use if you want to say that we ‘learned a lot’ - as in ‘immersion courses’. With immerse, you can imply that we have been dipped into something - like a corn chip well-soaked in hummous.

This might be good if you wish to convey that the result is overwhelming. So with submerge, you can imply that we are deeply in something, like water, with it over our heads. Immerse is also Latin, immers- ‘dipped into’, from the verb immergere, from in- ‘in’ + mergere ‘to dip’. Submerge is from Latin, submergere, from sub- ‘under’ + mergere ‘to dip’. You could say ‘we submerge ourselves in current affairs such as politics, humans rights, economic indicators and.‘Īlthough your own word, in your question, immerse, could also be used, and might be better (also with ‘in’). You can only submerge yourself in something, and it’s ‘in’, not into.

Submerse or submerge