Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
drowning
present participle of drown
drowning (plural drownings)
An instance of a person or animal drowning.
• ringdown, wondring
Source: Wiktionary
Drown, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning.] Etym: [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]
Definition: To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 June 2025
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.