淹没
Pinyin: yānmò
to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)
Example sentence
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.
What 淹没 means
淹没 (yānmò) is a Chinese word meaning “to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)”. It appears in the HSK 6 collection.