DROWNING

Verb

drowning

present participle of drown

Noun

drowning (plural drownings)

An instance of a person or animal drowning.

Anagrams

• ringdown, wondring

Source: Wiktionary


DROWN

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



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