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sub-marine

sub-marine is the rare form of submarine.

Meaning of submarine

Adjective

submarine (not comparable)

  1. Being, relating to, or made for use underwater, especially beneath the sea.
    • Near-synonym: submerged (synonymous in "being underwater" sense)
  2. Hidden or undisclosed.
    • a submarine patent
  3. Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.
    • When Peterson saw the unusual pitching motion of Kent Tekulve—the submarine pitcher who threw baseballs as though they were coming right out of the rubber slab on the mound—he was the first of many who tried to change Tekulve's delivery.2005, John McCollister, Tales from the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates: Remembering "The Fam-A-Lee", →ISBN, page 109

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Questions about sub-marine

What is sub-marine the rare form of?
Sub-marine is the rare form of submarine.

Words near sub-marine in the dictionary

  1. sub-license
  2. sub-lieutenant
  3. sub-lieutenants
  4. sub-light
  5. sub-liminal
  6. sub-marine
  7. sub-Mediterranean
  8. sub-milliarcsecond
  9. sub-model
  10. sub-models
  11. sub-moon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub-marine (page history and authors); submarine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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