Definition of "submerge" [sub•merge]

• To place under water. (verb-transitive)
• To cover with water; inundate. (verb-transitive)
• To hide from view; obscure. (verb-transitive)
• To go under or as if under water. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Way back in 1966, when he first began assuming leadership of the organization he'd come to re-brand as the Family, he sent out a memo declaring that the time had come to "submerge" the group's public profile."
• "Because place is such a major part of my writing and life, I thought it important that Bird Cloud breathe in and out of the landscape, a house subject not only to the wind, but to the drowning shadows that submerge it every evening and the sharp slice of sunlight at the eastern end of the cliff."
• "Today we merge Washington's birthday with the birthdays of other presidents and submerge them all in clothing and appliance sales."