"submergence" meaning in English

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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 84",
          "text": "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.",
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        "The act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion."
      ],
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          "submerging",
          "submerging"
        ],
        [
          "submerged",
          "submerged"
        ],
        [
          "submersion",
          "submersion"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "submergence"
}

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    {
      "form": "submergences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 84",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "The act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion."
      ],
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        [
          "submerging",
          "submerging"
        ],
        [
          "submerged",
          "submerged"
        ],
        [
          "submersion",
          "submersion"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "submergence"
}