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Answer for the clue "Doctor admitting cause of death ", 8 letters:
drowning

Word definitions for drowning in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Drowning is death from suffocation caused by a liquid entering the lungs. Drowning may also refer to: The Drowning EP , an EP by Dashboard Confessional "Drowning" (Backstreet Boys song) "Drowning" (Crazy Town song) "Drowning" (Hootie & the Blowfish song) ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An instance of a person or animal drowning. vb. (present participle of drown English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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; ...

Usage examples of drowning.

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.

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.

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.

Finally, when Calliste thought Leda was intent on drowning, Leda kicked toward the surface.

Jerry who looked the other way when Capri was drowning and needed help.

Old Man Pillager told me, when we were on the closest terms, how drowning was the worst death for a Chippewa to experience.

The wind tossed and agitated the corn on both sides of the road, drowning all sound, but in the dimmest light Ludwig could see the monster was gone.

The blood roared in her ears, drowning out all other sounds, but in her mind she could feel the anguished calls coming from the Greens over what had to be done, even from those like Cyril who had persuaded them that it was the only way.

Then, while he was still exhausted, he had come within a hairsbreadth of drowning.

Once, in gun belt, Stetson, and all his chiefly finery, he had hurled himself into a shallow canal with hippopotamian zeal to save a child who might or might not have been drowning.

There was a hoglike grunt, then a tremendous splash to his left, the scream drowning instantly.

Helen Hussey called the atrium on the walkie-talkie to report that Nathan Coleman had shot himself to escape drowning, Ray Richardson understood for the first time the gravity of their situation.