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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.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- to overwhelm so as to render inaudible, as by a louder sound (often followed by out ).
- 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
- 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
/ »å°ù²¹ÊŠ²Ô /
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
- trsometimes foll byout to render (a sound) inaudible by making a loud noise
Derived Forms
- ˈ»å°ù´Ç·É²Ô±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- »å°ù´Ç·É²Ôİù noun
- ³ó²¹±ô´Ú-»å°ù´Ç·É²Ô±ð»å adjective
- ³ó²¹±ô´Ú-»å°ù´Ç·É²Ôi²Ô²µ adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·»å°ù´Ç·É²Ô±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of drown1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of drown1
Idioms and Phrases
- like a drowned rat
Example Sentences
Janice, who is unwilling or unable to open up, is not nearly as needy as her spouse, who starts espousing biblical platitudes with the desperate certainty of a drowning man grateful for any life raft.
But the night before he left for New York, his youngest brother had a seizure and fell in the family’s backyard pool and drowned.
Fascist demagogues always need to rally against an opponent, and Duterte found his in drugs, which he claimed were drowning the country.
They get shoved into paper fast-food bags, drowned in sausage gravy and yanked from refrigerated tubes with a jarring pop.
He was drowning in debt after a few failed business ventures and needed to make good money fast.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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