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🧑‍🦱 A drowning person 🌊 A cause of drowning
drowner

drowner

1 8.6
A person or animal under water who cannot breathe
  • noun
  • /ˈdraʊnər/
: ahogado
  • The lifeguard saved the swimmer from a drowner before it was too late.

Examples

  • The story warned about the unseen dangers of a drowner lurking beneath the surface.

  • In the deep waters, a drowner can be a dangerous threat to unsuspecting victims.

  • Bloodthirsty monster, sinker of ships, drowner of sailors.

    Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)

Surface Forms

drowner singular
drowners plural

Morphology

drowner = drown (transparent) = drown + er

This is a regular agentive noun formed from the verb 'drown', so the meaning is easy to infer from the base word and suffix.

Etymology

Drowner comes from the verb drown, which means 'to die in water', and the ending -er meaning 'one who', as in runner. So a drowner is 'one who drowns', a person or animal that drowns.