submerge，flood，inundate，drown，[电影]Navodneniye；

[例句] 海滩上有些地方在涨潮时完全淹没在水中。 Some stretches of beach are completely underwater at high tide.

[例句] 上班时，他淹没在枯燥乏味的会海中。 At work, he was chained to a system of boring meetings.

be drowned，drown ；

[例句] 他们用力把她的头按到冰冷的水中，想淹死她。 They were forcing her head under the icy waters, drowning her.

[例句] 他在汹涌的海浪中挣扎了30分钟后淹死了。 He drowned after 30 minutes in the rough seas.

submersed ；

[例句] 我们只得绕道避开被洪水淹没的田野。 We had to make a detour around the flooded fields.

[例句] 他指出, 铁板一块的观念是注定要被历史的潮流所淹没的. The monolith, he suggested, was doomed by the tides of history.

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