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淹没

yān mò

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 淹沒

What 淹没 means

1. to submerge
2. to drown
3. to flood
4. to drown out (also fig.)

The characters in 淹没

• 淹yānto flood; to submerge; to drown
• 没méi(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not

Example sentences

• 海啸席卷稻田, 淹没了城镇。
  Hǎixiào xíjuǎn dàotián, yānmò le chéngzhèn.
  Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.
• 由于全球气候变暖，城市可能被完全地淹没。
  Yóuyú quánqiúqìhòubiànnuǎn, chéngshì kěnéng bèi wánquán de yānmò.
  Due to global warming, cities could be completely submerged.
• 住在海边的人可能失去他们的家，并且城市可能会被完全淹没。
  Zhù zài hǎibiān de rén kěnéng shīqù tāmen de jiā, bìngqiě chéngshì kěnéng huì bèi wánquán yānmò.
  People living on coastlines might lose their homes, and cities might be completely submerged.

Sounds the same

Read yān mò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 湮没to bury; to submerge; to pass into oblivion