Difference between Submerged and Drowned

What is the difference between Submerged and Drowned?

Submerged as a verb is to sink out of sight. while Drowned as a verb is to die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

Submerged

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To sink out of sight.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Something that is underwater.

Example sentence: Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Drowned

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That has died by drowning.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

Example sentence: No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

We hope you now know whether to use Submerged or Drowned in your sentence.

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