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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drown
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Conch-shells, drums and trumpets almost drowned the sound of his voice.
▪ The first time, she almost drowned in the bathtub.
▪ You washed your dinner down very well and, after, you almost drowned yourself in port.
▪ I remember watching a whole flock of female phalaropes badgering a poor male so intensely he almost drowned.
▪ All was dressed up like Bud Flanagan for some reason almost drowning in a raccoon coat.
▪ I was almost drowned a dozen times; was nearly boiled alive and just missed being cremated.
▪ But he was almost drowned out.
in
▪ Effie, for Nora's sister, who drowned in a river on the day that I was born.
▪ Eyes her soul could drown in.
▪ Half-male, half-female human torsos wallow like flesh drowning in itself.
▪ I could drown in here for all you care!
nearly
▪ Aird, was caught in the rigging wires and was nearly drowned until Jack managed to free him.
▪ She was denied food and sleep, shocked with electricity and dunked into vats of water until she nearly drowned.
▪ By the time that the recovery helicopters arrived Ham was strapped into a capsule half full of water and nearly drowned.
▪ In 1988, after nearly drowning in her swimming pool, doctors reported she was suffering from multiple sclerosis.
▪ I lived in Moscow once ... I nearly drowned ... Rotten.
out
▪ Question A combination of wind, traffic and camcorder noise have drowned out the required soundtrack.
▪ The songs of Whitman were drowned out in the drone of the new producing. consuming machinery.
▪ More and more instruments took up the melody, drowning out the frail lyric line.
▪ The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.
▪ But nothing could drown out the other incessant thrumming.
▪ The screams of the drill drowned out all other sounds.
▪ The music is drowned out by the jets of steam.
■ NOUN
death
▪ Barbarossa's death by drowning as described around 1250 in the Gotha manuscript of the Saxon Chronicle.
▪ Not having the proper authority, Maximus sent him before Amantius, who sentenced him to death by drowning.
man
▪ I mean, she's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him.
▪ John died trying to save a man from drowning.
▪ Police have questioned Michael Barrymore about a man who was found drowned in the entertainer's swimming pool.
▪ Three times he seen his men drown.
▪ Sir John, men have drowned.
▪ A man is saved from drowning only to be shaken to death by a derisive crowd.
▪ A joke went around about a passer-by who saw a man drowning in a canal.
▪ Read in studio Voice over Friends have been paying tribute to the man who drowned on an adventure holiday in California.
noise
▪ Then he realised that his music was being drowned by the noise of the conflagration.
▪ The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.
▪ The machines made their own bilious sound which drowned the natural noise of the Earth.
▪ When they overtook me, they gave a cheer so loud that they drowned the noises of the wheelbarrow and lorry.
▪ They will do so ever more loudly as the organ attempts to drown their noise.
river
▪ James, 18, drowned in a river four days after starting a course of the tablets.
▪ He had tried to save one of his sheep from drowning in the river, and he drowned himself.
▪ Effie, for Nora's sister, who drowned in a river on the day that I was born.
▪ They were weighted with lead, then drowned in the river.
▪ He saw friends drown in rivers and get shot by bandits.
▪ A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river.
▪ It read: A young woman, Miss Leila Sekhmet, was drowned in the river last week.
sea
▪ She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea.
▪ But it takes a special kind of parenting to cope successfully with a child who is drowning in a sea of sensations.
▪ Start doing the math, adding up the numbers and you wind up drowning in a sea of them.
▪ It fought a terrifying battle, only perhaps to drown on the sea floor.
▪ Henry's only son, William, was drowned at sea in 1120, but Henry lived on until 1133.
sorrow
▪ Within the hour the show is cancelled and everyone returns to the hotel to drown their sorrows.
▪ And is there a female alive who has not drowned her sorrows in buttered mashed potatoes?
▪ One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink.
▪ There were dry gingers and tonics prepared for the whiskies and gins which everyone hoped would drown the star's sorrows.
▪ I knew Mum and Dad would be out until late drowning their sorrows.
▪ Who couldn't drink, drown her sorrows.
▪ I am deeper drowned in sorrow.
▪ Drinking on your own or to drown your sorrows can get out of hand.
sound
▪ The roar of the Jeep's high-revving engine had drowned the turbine's sound.
▪ It was impossible to shout to the pair, for the roar of the Falls drowned out all other sounds.
▪ The bell did nothing to drown the sound of anxious hens and ducks.
▪ The screams of the drill drowned out all other sounds.
▪ Conch-shells, drums and trumpets almost drowned the sound of his voice.
water
▪ She imagined Nettie, held up by her collar, the water backing up to drown her.
▪ She was denied food and sleep, shocked with electricity and dunked into vats of water until she nearly drowned.
▪ There were rats in the water, swollen-bellied, drowned.
▪ But so desperate was she to see her prince that she plunged into the water and drowned.
▪ How do water-babies drown?-With some difficulty, Nora says grimly.
▪ Fire bums, water drowns us, but neither were designed to do so.
▪ By the time that the recovery helicopters arrived Ham was strapped into a capsule half full of water and nearly drowned.
wave
▪ The wounded were trampled and drowned in the shallow waves.
▪ Tens of thousands were slain, drowned by waves, buried by earthquakes, struck by magical lightning.
▪ He was immediately plucked off and we plunged downwards, drowning in a tidal wave of powder snow.
■ VERB
feel
▪ Their apathy made him feel he was drowning, fighting his way to a surface which perhaps no longer existed.
▪ Again I feel I am drowning in language of no particular content.
▪ I felt as if I were drowning in sleep.
save
▪ A man is saved from drowning only to be shaken to death by a derisive crowd.
▪ John died trying to save a man from drowning.
▪ Bernice had tried to explain to her android companion about the man who had saved her from drowning in the quicksand.
▪ Read in studio Five people have been saved from drowning after their cabin cruiser capsized.
try
▪ I learned in case she tried to drown me.
▪ Dockers and warehousemen were trying to drown the fire with what were effectively thimble-fulls of water.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
look like a drowned rat
▪ Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats.
▪ You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He accused his brother of trying to drown him.
▪ He nearly drowned before friends rescued him.
▪ The country is drowning in debt.
▪ The floods drowned scores of livestock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was shipping water at a furious rate and could plainly see that he was drowning.
▪ I mean, she's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him.
▪ I was drowned in the Old Woman Fork at the age of twenty-nine.
▪ I was almost drowned a dozen times; was nearly boiled alive and just missed being cremated.
▪ Maurus saved the young Placid from drowning, which may or may not explain bis patronage.
▪ She let him drown her in the deep water, too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him.
▪ The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drown

Drown \Drown\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning.] [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.] To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

Methought, what pain it was to drown.
--Shak.

Drown

Drown \Drown\, v. t.

  1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. ``They drown the land.''
    --Dryden.

  2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

  3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

    Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned.
    --Sir J. Davies.

    My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
    --Addison.

    To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.]
    --Holland.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drown

c.1300, transitive and intransitive, perhaps from an unrecorded derivative word of Old English druncnian (Middle English druncnen) "be swallowed up by water" (originally of ships as well as living things), probably from the base of drincan "to drink."\n

\nModern form is from northern England dialect, probably influenced by Old Norse drukna "be drowned." Related: Drowned; drowning.

Wiktionary
drown

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation. 2 (context transitive English) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. 3 (context transitive English) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. 4 (context transitive English) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out". 5 (context transitive English) To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.

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WordNet
drown

  1. v. cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: submerge, overwhelm]

  2. get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

  3. die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"

  4. kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"

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Wikipedia
Drown (The Smashing Pumpkins song)

"Drown" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins from the soundtrack to the 1992 Cameron Crowe film, Singles. The song is a heavy mixture of psychedelia and dream pop.

Drown (surname)

Drown is a surname which originated in Yorkshire, England. It is the Americanization of the Surname Drowne. Many branches of this family dropped the E during the late 18th century as a part of the American Spelling Reform movement, forming the surname Drown. It is possibly derived from the Middle English word "drane", or drone, the male honey bee.

The first Drowne/Drown in North America was Leonard Drowne (1646–1729) who came from Penryn, Cornwall to what was then part of Kittery in Massachusetts soon after the Restoration (England) of the monarchy in 1660. Leonard, a ship-wright, established a shipyard near Sturgeon Creek in what is now Eliot, York County, Maine. Leonard married Sarah Abbott of Portsmouth, New Hampshire around 1675. Leonard helped organize and build the first Baptist Church in Maine in 1682. During King William's War, many Maine towns were raided and English settlements were massacred by the Wabanaki people in conjunction with the French. In 1696, 28 members of the Baptist Church moved to Charleston, South Carolina and established the first Baptist church there while the Drownes moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1699, due to the ongoing war and violence. After Sarah Abbott died, Leonard married his also-widowed sister-in law, Mary (Abbott) Caley. This marriage was performed by the Rev. Cotton Mather in Boston, November 4, 1707. Leonard Drowne died in Boston, October 31, 1729. Leonard Drowne and other early members of the family are buried in Copps Hill Cemetery in Boston.

Drown (disambiguation)

Drowning is respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid.

Drown may also refer to:

  • Drown (short story collection), a short-story collection by Junot Díaz
  • Drown (surname), a surname and list of people with the surnames Drown and Drowne
  • DROWN attack, a computer security exploit
Drown (short story collection)

Drown is the debut short story collection from Dominican-American author Junot Díaz and was published by Riverhead Books in 1996.

Drown precedes his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the short story collection This Is How You Lose Her. Drown is dedicated to his mother, Virtudes Díaz.

Drown (Bring Me the Horizon song)

"Drown" is a song by the British rock band Bring Me the Horizon released on 21 October 2014. Originally released as a stand-alone single, a re-recorded version features on the band's fifth studio album That's the Spirit. The track, musically, marks a shift away from the band's previously established metalcore sound. Rather, it was described by critics as other types of rock, including alternative rock, emo, and pop punk, also being described as " arena rock fire".

Drown (Theory of a Deadman song)

Drown is the lead single on Theory of a Deadman's fifth studio album Savages. The single was released on April 22, 2014.

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Usage examples of "drown".

Almost simultaneously with the disappearance of the swarm over New York, all other Africans had flown to water - the sea, lakes, rivers, even reservoirs - and drowned there.

I thought, if he had kept quiet and seen to his borders first, for no sooner had the name of Ahura Mazda rung freely across the Land of Fires than the wave of Akkadian vengeance broke, drowning it in blood.

Ahlberg went first and pretended to leave when Alberta came and then went back and drowned Miss Grady.

Capetus, Tiberinus, who, being drowned in crossing the river Albula, gave it a name famous with posterity.

Amerikan Peace Movement whose theory of justice was that the brutal Amerikan Army should move out of Southeast Asia so that the Cambodians could fertilize their fields with the bodies of Cambodians so that the Vietnamese could prey on the corpse of a decimated nation so that the Chinese could punish the Vietnamese so that the Vietnamese could drown their own Chinese in the sea.

And instead of a mad Amishman drowning women, there was now a mad but grossly deformed Amishman living among the hay bales who was terrified of anyone entering his secret domain.

It was littered with clams, crustaceans, squid, fish, ammonites of all sizes, all of them drowning in the air.

All those women and children excursion beanfeast burned and drowned in New York.

Not the least of his motives for joining Beka in her campaign had been the chance to drown that anger in blood and be done with it.

Aaron Belton poisoned her, drowned her, cut off her skin, and then dumped her naked in the alley behind the restaurant she worked in.

He must have been desperate to haul Boardman back on board, though it was hardly a lifebelt to a drowning man.

Already he hung over the bombsight like a drowning man over a life preserver, wiping his eyes with his sleeves while staring down into the aiming viewer.

Luck and his leaking bullboat kept him afloat until nightfall when he caught up with a drowning antelope.

Sarronnese burkha, the combination of peppers and assorted spices drown out the taste of whatever had been passed off for bear.

Although the stew is nearly as heavily seasoned as Sarronnese burkha, the combination of peppers and assorted spices drown out the taste of whatever had been passed off for bear.