Literary notes about Submerge (AI summary)
The term "submerge" is used with remarkable versatility, ranging from its literal application in maritime and technical contexts to more metaphorical dimensions. In narratives involving submarines, for example, it directs a vessel to dive underwater for tactical concealment or escape ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). At the same time, writers employ "submerge" to evoke overwhelming emotional states or the absorption of identity, as characters find themselves engulfed by forces both internal and external ([6], [7], [8]). It even appears in scientific or craft-related contexts—describing actions like immersing objects in water or oil ([9], [10])—demonstrating the word's capacity to bridge concrete physical processes and figurative expressions of surrender, transformation, or loss.
- With the conning tower open, it was, of course, impossible for the U-Boat to submerge, for she would have been flooded immediately.
— from The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets; Or, The Fall of the German Navy by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes - If she is at rest and the captain wants her to sink he must either start her engines or else be content to simply submerge her on an even keel.
— from The Boys' Book of Submarines by Virgil D. (Virgil Dewey) Collins - “Are we going to keep above the water to-night, Herr Captain-Lieutenant, or are we to submerge?”
— from The Adventures of the U-202: An Actual Narrative by Spiegel, E. (Edgar), Freiherr von - His craft was sighted by a British destroyer, however, off the English coast and he had to submerge to escape the fire of the destroyer's guns.
— from The Story of the Great War, Volume 3 History of the European War from Official Sources - —All submarines are fitted with tanks which may be filled with water so that the vessel will submerge; these are called ballast tanks.
— from The Submarine in War and Peace: Its Development and its Possibilities by Simon Lake - You cannot submerge your personality and yet retain it."
— from Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston - We submerge our personality in that of the human race, and the griefs of strangers lure us to cry out for them.
— from The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell - And then his success began to submerge him: he gasped under the thickening shower of letters.
— from Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton - Then repeatedly submerge it in clean linseed oil and wipe out over the edge of a cup, after which use it for a week or two in rubbing varnish.
— from Practical Carriage and Wagon PaintingA Treatise on the Painting of Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs, Embracing Full and Explicit Directions for Executing All Kinds of Work, Including Painting Factory Work, Lettering, Scrolling, Ornamenting, Varnishing, etc., with Many Tested Recipes and Formulas by M. C. (Mayton Clarence) Hillick - If we submerge a barometer a very little way below the surface of a water tank, we shall at once observe a rise of the mercury column.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams
