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Drowned

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.

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drowned
  1. That has died by drowning. v

  2. (en-past of: drown)

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drowned

adj. dead by drowning; "poor drowned sailors"

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Drowned (song)

"Drowned" is a song written by Pete Townshend, the guitarist for The Who, for their sixth album, Quadrophenia.

Usage examples of "drowned".

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.

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.

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

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

Customs officers from the Chequy Port would buy from her, and paddlers from the Drowned Town, whose sunken domes and towers poked up from the green waters of the lagoon.

Jews from Chernovtsy kept up Austrian, German-speaking traditions even though the empire had vanished and Atlantis drowned.

Had she offered a protest, it would have been drowned out by the sudden screech of security claxons around them.

The beaten-down stems of the daisies and the coneflowers seemed to rise slowly back toward the sky, to be prepared to be warmed by the sun that had I been drowned for so many days.

Latin, Cymric and Saxon with no result, bitterly regretting that our two islanders, who might have interpreted, had drowned, bound tightly to their bunks.

Four days on the water from the mouth of a mighty river were we cast away, and some were drowned and some died of sickness.

The souls of those struck by lightning, or drowned, or dying by any of a given list of diseases, also the souls of children, were transferred to a remote elysium, Tlalocan.

Safe today but soon there will be another bad one, a killer earthquake, like seven years ago when I almost died and a hundred thousand people perished in Yedo alone in the earthquake and in the fires that always follow, not counting the tens of thousands washed out to sea and drowned in the tsunami wave that swept unheralded out of the sea that night--one of them my lovely Yuriko, then the passion of my life.

The fog made them seem an army of drowned corpses, gathering in the courtyard in the foredawn cold.

Then, about two months after I graduated as a detective garda, I solved a double murder in Knockraha, two women drowned in a well, mother and daughter.