1. The act of putting under water or causing to be overflowed; as the submersion of an isle or tract of land.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.
2. The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned.
Depth Roget’s Thesaurus §208
N. depth, deepness, profundity, depression #, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, bottomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer
V. be deep, render deep, deepen, plunge, sound, fathom, plumb, cast the lead, heave the lead, take soundings, make soundings, dig
Adj. deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep
Adv. beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain
Insertion Roget’s Thesaurus §300
N. insertion, implantation, # introduction, insinuation, planting, &c. v, injection, inoculation, importation, infusion, forcible ingress, immersion, submersion, submergence, dip, plunge, bath &c. (water), 337, interment, clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement
V. insert, introduce, intromit, put into, run into, import, inject, interject, infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue, graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant, dovetail, obtrude, thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in, impact, empierce|, imbed, immerse, immerge, merge, bathe, soak, dip, plunge, bury, insert &c itself, plunge in medias res
Adj. inserted
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