submerse

Other forms of submerse

past tense

submersed·

present participle

submersing·

third person

submerses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about submerse

What does submerse mean?

submerse means "sink below the surface; go under or as if under water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in submerse?

submerse has 2 syllables: sub-merse. The stress falls on "merse". In IPA it is /səbˈmɝs/.

What is another word for submerse?

Close synonyms include submerge, submerge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is submerse a common word?

submerse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with submerse?

1 word rhymes with submerse. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.