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drown

/dɹaʊn/verb1 syllable

Drown means: cover completely or make imperceptible.

Synonyms for drown7

verb, as in cover completely or make imperceptible

submerge, overwhelm

verb, as in be covered with or submerged in a liquid

swim

also used for drown

drench, noyade, flood, inundate

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What does drown mean?6

verb

1

cover completely or make imperceptible“I was drowned in work”

2

be covered with or submerged in a liquid“the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy”

3

get rid of as if by submerging“She drowned her trouble in alcohol”

4

die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating“The child drowned in the lake”

5

kill by submerging in water“He drowned the kittens”

6

be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation“the divers saved the drowning child”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with drown?12

two syllables

downtownuptownrenown
Show 40 near rhymes
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Drown in a sentence

  • Someone needs to save him, or he'll drown.Source_VOA
  • The child knows how to swim, so she won't drown in the water.Zifre
  • Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.carlosalberto
  • If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?Adelpa
  • The truth is sometimes submerged, but it doesn't drown.Dejo
  • He cannot swim, he is afraid of drowning.calypsow
  • Drowning, he notes, disproportionately affects the poor and the marginalized.Hybrid
  • The drowning man called for help, but in vain.unknown

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of drown

as a verb

past tense
drowned
present participle
drowning
third-person singular
drowns
past participle
drowned