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drown
[droun]
verb (used without object)
to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
verb (used with object)
to kill by submerging under water or other liquid.
to destroy or get rid of by, or as if by, immersion.
He drowned his sorrows in drink.
to flood or inundate.
to overwhelm so as to render inaudible, as by a louder sound (often followed byout ).
to add too much water or liquid to (a drink, food, or the like).
to slake (lime) by covering with water and letting stand.
verb phrase
drown in
to be overwhelmed by.
The company is drowning in bad debts.
to be covered with or enveloped in.
The old movie star was drowning in mink.
drown
/ draʊn /
verb
to die or kill by immersion in liquid
(tr) to destroy or get rid of as if by submerging
he drowned his sorrows in drink
(tr) to drench thoroughly; inundate; flood
to render (a sound) inaudible by making a loud noise
Other Word Forms
- drowner noun
- half-drowned adjective
- half-drowning adjective
- undrowned adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of drown1
Word History and Origins
Origin of drown1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
"At one point I drowned in suicidal ideation. It was despair. So I don't know that I coped. But I survived."
Decades later he would tell a high-school English teacher that the scene in which Rabbit’s wife, Janice, accidentally drowns their baby “was the most intense writing of my life.”
But Fisher says he also wanted to escape the frenzy of athletes around town toasting their successes—or drowning their sorrows.
A top reporter for the Guardian in London, she’s just back from an assignment during which a female source was purposely drowned.
The neighbor has seen the mother toy with drowning herself, and his intention seems to be to shock her into responsibility.
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