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Synonyms for drown
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drownverb
Synonyms:
flooddrownverb
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
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flooddrownverb
To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
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flooddrownverb
To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
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flooddrownverb
To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; said especially of sound; usually in the form to drown out
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flooddrownverb
To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass
The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.
Synonyms:
flood
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Princeton's WordNet
submerge, drown, overwhelmverb
cover completely or make imperceptible
"I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
Synonyms:
sweep over, overcome, flood out, submerge, overtake, inundate, overwhelm, deluge, overpower, overmaster, whelm, swim, submersedrownverb
get rid of as if by submerging
"She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
drownverb
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
"The child drowned in the lake"
drownverb
kill by submerging in water
"He drowned the kittens"
swim, drownverb
be covered with or submerged in a liquid
"the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
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drownverb
Synonyms:
kill by immersingdrownverb
drownverb
drownverb
Synonyms:
be drowned
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4817 | flood | |
#6803 | float | |
#6845 | swim | |
#7229 | sink | |
#7548 | overcome | |
#9458 | walnut | |
#15092 | swamp | |
#18354 | drowning | |
#23473 | drowned | |
#24176 | drown | |
#25908 | sank | |
#31696 | drone | |
#39035 | overwhelm | |
#39579 | overtake | |
#40642 | immerse | |
#42724 | deluge | |
#71168 | overpower | |
#73698 | engulf | |
#75978 | submerge | |
#80460 | drowns | |
#144060 | inundate |
How to use drown in a sentence?
Free diving is extremely dangerous, and so even highly trained free divers often die because they lose consciousness on ascent and they drown, if that's happening over thousands of years, then the people who are surviving are those that are carrying the genes that give them an advantage.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
You can use your senses either to drown in the NOW or enacting your past!
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
Rosa did something that is absolutely, unbelievably heroic, she drove passengers through 3 to 4 feet of water. I watched that video. The water... was in the bus. People are literally standing on their seats to make sure that they did not drown inside a bus.
Translations for drown
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- غرقArabic
- заливам, удавям се, давя се, заглушавам, потапям, давяBulgarian
- submergir, ofegarCatalan, Valencian
- přehlušit, potopit, utopitCzech
- überwältigen, ertränken, ertrinkenGerman
- πνίγομαι, πνίγωGreek
- droniEsperanto
- ahogar, ahogarseSpanish
- peittää, hukuttautua, hukkua, hukuttaa, upottaaFinnish
- noyerFrench
- bàthScottish Gaelic
- טבעHebrew
- fulladHungarian
- կործանելArmenian
- annegare, coprire, affogare, sommergereItalian
- 溺れる, 溺死, 圧倒, 水死, 溺らすJapanese
- 물에 뼈져 죽다Korean
- skęsti, grimztiLithuanian
- slīktLatvian
- verdrinken, verzuipen, overspoelen, overweldigenDutch
- utopić, tonąćPolish
- afogar-sePortuguese
- înecaRomanian
- тонуть, заглушить, затопить, затоплять, потонуть, заглушать, утонуть, топить, утопитьRussian
- dränka, drunknaSwedish
- 淹Chinese
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