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verb (used without object)
1.
to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
verb (used with object)
2.
to kill by submerging under water or other liquid.
3.
to destroy or get rid of by, or as if by, immersion: He drowned his sorrows in drink.
4.
to flood or inundate.
5.
to overwhelm so as to render inaudible, as by a louder sound (often followed by out).
6.
EXPANDto add too much water or liquid to (a drink, food, or the like).
7.
COLLAPSEto slake (lime) by covering with water and letting stand.
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Drowned
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
8.
drown in,
a.
to be overwhelmed by: The company is drowning in bad debts.
b.
to be covered with or enveloped in: The old movie star was drowning in mink.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English drounnen, Old English druncnian, perhaps by loss of c between nasals and shift of length from nn to ou
1250–1300; Middle English drounnen, Old English druncnian, perhaps by loss of c between nasals and shift of length from nn to ou
Related forms
drown·er, noun
half-drowned, adjective
half-drown·ing, adjective
un·drowned, adjective
Synonyms
4. deluge, engulf, submerge, drench, soak.
4. deluge, engulf, submerge, drench, soak.
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Word Origin & History
drown
c.1300, perhaps from O.E. druncnian "be swallowed up by water" (originally of ships as well as living things), from base of drincan "to drink." Modern form is from northern England dialect, probably influenced by O.N. drukna "be drowned." Related: Drowned; drowning.
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