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drownverb
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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.
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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
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drownverb
drownverb
Synonyms:
be drowned
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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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?
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
For a long time we'll need to adapt ourselves to new ways of doing things under these circumstances. If not, we will drown.
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
We constantly ask ourselves, ‘Is this moving us forward?’ you can easily drown in getting something perfect, as opposed to understanding where you are, having a clear destination or goal and making sure you’re continually moving toward that goal on the product side and the marketing side.
People literally standing on their seat to make sure they did not drown inside a bus, she stood there, she drove, through the night and did what it took to get people there safely.
Translations for drown
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- غرقArabic
- заливам, удавям се, давя се, заглушавам, потапям, давяBulgarian
- submergir, ofegarCatalan, Valencian
- přehlušit, potopit, utopitCzech
- dræneDanish
- überwältigen, ertränken, ertrinkenGerman
- πνίγομαι, πνίγωGreek
- droniEsperanto
- ahogarse, ahogarSpanish
- peittää, hukkua, hukuttaa, upottaa, hukuttautuaFinnish
- noyerFrench
- bàthScottish Gaelic
- טבעHebrew
- fulladHungarian
- կործանելArmenian
- sommergere, affogare, annegare, coprireItalian
- לְהַטבִּיעַHebrew
- 圧倒, 溺れる, 溺らす, 水死, 溺死Japanese
- 물에 뼈져 죽다Korean
- grimzti, skęstiLithuanian
- slīktLatvian
- verdrinken, verzuipen, overspoelen, overweldigenDutch
- sulleNorwegian
- utopić, tonąćPolish
- afogar-sePortuguese
- înecaRomanian
- утонуть, заглушить, затопить, затоплять, тонуть, потонуть, топить, утопить, заглушатьRussian
- drunkna, dränkaSwedish
- 淹Chinese
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