submergence

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submergence (countable and uncountable, plural submergences)

  1. The act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion.
    • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 84:
      The covering up of a complex of apartments on the north-east, and the simultaneous submergence of many floor deposits, mean that Middle Minoan III., like the two preceding periods, was closed by a general catastrophe.