1 | noun | sinking until covered completely with water 2 | noun | the act of wetting something by submerging it

suhbm'erzhuhn (IPA: səbmˈɝʒən)

sub-mer-sion (10 letters | 3 syllables)

1572 (Elizabethan era | European Renaissance) (453 years ago)

Latin

submersions

immersion | submergence | submerging | dousing | ducking (total: 5)

dip

sinking | wetting

aspersion | aversion | conversion | dispersion | diversion | excursion | immersion | incursion | inversion | perversion | reversion | subversion | version (total: 13) (based on typical American pronunciation)

subversion

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Spanish: | sumersión (action) | sumergimiento (action) French: | submersion (action) Portuguese: | submersão (action) | imersão (action) German: | Untertauchen (action) Japanese: | 沈没 (common noun) | 浸水 (common noun) | 水浸し (common noun)

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14 (International English) | 14 (North American English)