Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
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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