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▪ I. drowning, vbl. n.|ˈdraʊnɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb drown, in its various senses.
c1400Destr. Troy 3673 heading, The Drownyng of Pollux & Castor. 1539Act 31 Hen. VIII, c. 4 The ouerflowyng and drowning of the medowes. 1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 55 b, Those which put the shippe in daunger of drowning. 1626Bacon Sylva §798, I call drowning of Metals, when that the baser Metal is so incorporate with the more rich, as it can by no means be separated again. 1661J. Stephens Procurations 54 Things..which in any sort might be subject to drowning, or extinguishment by unity of possession. 1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. xi. 474 The hangings, and burnings, and drownings, and Bartholomew massacres, and Spanish furies, of past times.
attrib.1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 556 In great despair, and disgustion of a drowning death. c1798Southey Ball. Lord William, No human ear but William's heard Young Edmund's drowning scream. 1850Mrs. Browning Rom. Margret xxv, The men at sea..heard a drowning cry.
▪ II. ˈdrowning, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That drowns.
1. Perishing from suffocation in water; suffering inundation.
c1470Henry Wallace x. 822 Drownand folk. 1821Byron Heav. & Earth iii. 911 The ocean..grasps each drowning hill. 1869W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (1875) 69 As is well known, a drowning man will catch at a straw.
2. Suffocating or destroying by submersion in water; also fig., overwhelming, overpowering.
1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 516 Great Faith..will beleeve in an angry God, in a killing God, and in a drowning God. 1716Cibber Love makes Man ii. ii, Dissolving Softness! O the drowning Joy!
Hence ˈdrowningly adv., so as to drown.
1818Keats Endymion ii. 282 What misery most drowningly doth sing In lone Endymion's ear? 1880R. Broughton Sec. Th. II. iii. vii. 233 Drenchingly, drowningly wet. |