submarine
/sʌb.məˈɹiːn/ verb C2- To operate or serve on a submarine.
- To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
- To sink or submerge oneself.
- To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop). · The seatback should always be up while driving so that the occupant doesn't submarine and potentially suffer severe internal injury.
He/she/it submarines · Past submarined · Past participle submarined · -ing form submarining
Verb forms
- Base form
- submarine
- He/she/it
- submarines
- Past
- submarined
- Past participle
- submarined
- -ing form
- submarining
From the library
The papers which this wretched youth had in his pocket were the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine.”
On the other, the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine are presumably already on the Continent.
“Do you mean to say that anyone holding these three papers, and without the seven others, could construct a Bruce-Partington submarine?”
The recurring words, “water pressure” and “pressure to the square inch” suggested some possible relation to a submarine.
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