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drown English

Meaning drown meaning

What does drown mean?
Definitions in simple English

drown Verb

— To drown is an action where someone is struggling in water. I remembered when I was young, I nearly drowned in the lake near my house. — The effect of drowning can also be produced intentionally. — If you drown something, you lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in a great mass. The CIA collects so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the flood of reports.

drown

— verb cover completely or make imperceptible I was drowned in work The noise drowned out her speech — verb die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating The child drowned in the lake — verb get rid of as if by submerging She drowned her trouble in alcohol — verb kill by submerging in water He drowned the kittens — verb (= swim) be covered with or submerged in a liquid the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy

Synonyms drown synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as drown?

drown English » English

sink submerge suffocate overwhelm drowned strangle choke swim soak inundate flood dip be drowned throttle smother shower immerse dive deluge wash away strangulate stifle set plunge perish overflow over power lavish kill inundation immersed get rid of get drowned get addicted founder forget flush irrigation flow drowning drownd drown out drench die by drowning deafen dampen consume choked block become red become infatuated

Topics drown topics

What do people use drown to talk about?
Person Life

Die
Person Life Die

Kill
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Dive

  • What words refer to drowning?
    drown
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Loud

Conjugation drown conjugation

How do you conjugate drown?

drown · verb

Examples drown examples

How do I use drown in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom didn't drown.
You won't drown if you learn how to swim.
Someone needs to save him, or he'll drown.
Some go to a bar to have a good time and others to drown their sorrows.
Did Tom drown?
We drown in information but thirst for knowledge.
Tom tried to drown himself in the bathtub.
The truth is sometimes submerged, but it doesn't drown.
I have to wear earplugs to drown out all the noise from the construction site next door.
A sailor saw his friend drown from exhaustion.
Arguing with a woman is like trying to drown the water, burn the fire, dig the soil or catch the air.
Dan tried to drown himself.
Tom tried to drown himself in his bathtub.
Mary tried to drown herself in her bathtub.
Mary tried to drown herself.
He tried to drown her.
She tried to drown him.

Movie subtitles

I drown it.
I cannot live like a peasant in those places where I drown, at those tiny man-to-man houses that are like his own cattle.
I surrender, I will drown myself.
I've tried to drown myself, but I can't!
You trying to drown me?
You'd drown your own son!
He drown off Cape Sable in storm.
Ask your granny how they wanted to drown your father.
Don't drown it.
Here, drown it with this.
I'd pretty near drown half of 'em.
I'm glad you didn't drown me, Papa!
Well, perhaps, it's lucky we didn't drown any of them at birth, my dear!
Oh, I'm not going to bother you with the contents now, but I can assure you that it is not the note of a woman. who intends to drown herself that same night.
We had to drown the gat, but we saved you a little black gitten.
Dead, Mr. Peggotty? Drown dead.
They'll starve or drown.
We'll drown!
Then you'll drown.
Now you swabs, give me that ring or I'll drown you!
Ah, fish can't drown.
For example, if I see a swimmer, I think he's going to drown. So I paint a drowning man.
He'd rather drown himself than go home after two days.
We'll drown our disillusions.
If I was any drier, I'd drown.
If I was to drown myself, then they'd be sorry.
Throw that basket in the river and drown him. No!
I used to get an irrigation ditch so full of repented sinners I'd pretty near drown half of them.
Oh, I'm not gonna bother you with the contents now. But I can assure you that it is not the note of a woman who intends to drown herself that same night.
We'd better get in before we drown.
Don't worry, you will not drown!
And you, Jafar, remember, I saved you out of the water, but I swear, I shall drown you again, in the same pond.
Drown him when night comes. secretly.
It just stands about, waiting for people to drown in it.
Some folks there are want to drown fine young men and break poor girls' hearts. so that they can be wedded one day sooner!

News and current affairs

Will foreign governments and the International Monetary Fund extend vital finances to the new government, or will they let it flounder and drown in a tsunami of currency depreciation and inflation?
Half of Moscow's drivers use licenses bought illegally. Idiots who try to do things honestly drown in bureaucratic minutia.
Jibril has made a special trip to plead on behalf of the civilians whom Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his sons have promised to drown in rivers of blood.
For when you drown puppies, they sink.
But this reply fails to deal with the suffering of those who drown in floods, are burned alive in forest fires caused by lightning, or die of hunger or thirst during a drought.
Idiots who try to do things honestly drown in bureaucratic minutia.
In other words, allowing children to drown is a legitimate deterrent.
If Europeans do not stand together in addressing migration, countless more people will drown in the Mediterranean and the EU will continue to unravel.
Such a large quantity of water is not even necessary for rice farming; most of it is used to drown weeds.
This manner of governance bodes well neither for economic growth nor democracy in the long term. For when you drown puppies, they sink.

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