to drown
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2.1
- verb
- /draʊn/
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- She almost drowned in that river.
- a drowned man
- a drowned girl
- number who drown
And he ended up drowning and died.
- And he ended up drowning and died.
- And he gets stuck there and then it rains and he drowns in this thing.
- One week later a man drowns saving a woman jumping into the Thames.
- Once someone drowns, they generally go to the bottom.
- Then she slipped and fell into the water and drowned.
- I've I've drowned a couple times while surfing.
- You just relax and you just slowly drowned.
Examples
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He nearly drowned while swimming in the ocean during a strong current.
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A few hours later, he drowned.
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How can someone full well drown in the water and just drop under the surface?
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Enough water to drown in, if we're lucky.
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I said you actually have to try harder to drown than you do to swim.
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Oh, we also have these in case anybody starts drowning in the pool.
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You ever almost drowned yourself?
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One week later a man drowns saving a woman jumping into the Thames.
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Congress recently enacted new legislation to reduce the number of children who drown each year because of entrapment underwater.
Academic text (2009) -
The widow's husband drowned in a hot tub two weeks after a triple bypass.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
81
6.1
To have no air to breathe or to stop someone from getting air
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9.3
To prevent a person or animal from breathing by taking away air
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Etymology
Drown comes from an old English idea of being 'filled with liquid' and is related to the common word drink. So to drown means to be so full of water that you cannot breathe, which is why it describes dying in water.