DROWNS
Verb
drowns
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drown
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Proper noun
Drowns
plural of Drown
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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