English language
Toggle Transcript
drown::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | overwhelm, submerge |
| Type of | spread over, cover |
I was drowned in work.
The noise drowned out her speech.
drown::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | croak, decease, die, drop dead, choke, conk, perish, pop off, snuff it, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away |
The child drowned in the lake.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | eliminate, do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
She drowned her trouble in alcohol.
Examples of drown
drown
She told officers that Buck beat her and attempted to drown her, documents said.
From the thenewstribune.com
This worm controls grasshoppers and makes them jump into pools where they drown.
From the dispatch.com
If I were in California's Central Valley, I could flood the area and drown them.
From the ocregister.com
No need to indicate the California gulls, whose cries drown out the other birds.
From the sltrib.com
Unable to detect the fine mesh, dolphins can quickly become entangled and drown.
From the sciencedaily.com
If a child falls into the bucket, it may not tip over and the child could drown.
From the washingtonpost.com
Don't you people want to make the government small enough to drown in a bathtub?
From the denverpost.com
In this way, people often drown mere feet away from those who could rescue them.
From the scienceblogs.com
If your team of choice doesn't seem to be up to speed, don't drown your sorrows.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Submerge: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
- Get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
- Die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
- Kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
- Swim: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
- "Drown" is the second single taken from Blindspott's latest album End the Silence. The single also included the music video to Drown. It peaked at number four in New Zealand.
- "Drown" is a song by alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins on the 1992 soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe film, Singles. ...
- Drown is a surname which originated in Yorkshire, England. It is the Americanization of the Surname Drowne. It is possibly derived from the Middle English word "drane", or drone, the male honey bee.
- Drowning is death from asphyxia due to suffocation caused by a liquid entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia and myocardial infarction.Lunetta, P. & Modell, J.H. (2005): Macropathological, Microscopical, and Laboratory Findings in Drowning Victims. ...
