英语词汇“drown”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINdrown

Origin:

1200-1300 Probably from a Scandinavian language

VERB TABLE

drown

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	drown
	he, she, it	drowns
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	drowned
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have drowned
	he, she, it	has drowned
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had drowned
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will drown
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have drowned

Continuous Form
Present	I	am drowning
	he, she, it	is drowning
	you, we, they	are drowning
Past	I, he, she, it	was drowning
	you, we, they	were drowning
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been drowning
	he, she, it	has been drowning
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been drowning
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be drowning
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been drowning

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

He accused his brother of trying to drown him.
He nearly drowned before friends rescued him.
The country is drowning in debt.
The floods drowned scores of livestock.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

He was shipping water at a furious rate and could plainly see that he was drowning.
I mean, she's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him.
I was drowned in the Old Woman Fork at the age of twenty-nine.
I was almost drowned a dozen times; was nearly boiled alive and just missed being cremated.
Maurus saved the young Placid from drowning, which may or may not explain bis patronage.
She let him drown her in the deep water, too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him.
The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.

Longman Language Activatorto get drunk► get drunk

· Their idea of a good time is to go out and get drunk.· I can't remember the last time I got drunk.get drunk on · She sometimes gets drunk on two glasses of wine.

► drown your sorrows

to drink a lot of alcohol with the purpose of getting drunk, in order to forget your problems: · After his girlfriend left he spent the evening drowning his sorrows in a local bar.drown your sorrows in: · You can't just sit around day after day drowning your sorrows in whiskey.

► hit the bottle

informal to start to drink a lot of alcohol regularly, especially in order to forget your problems: · When his wife died he hit the bottle again.· My sister's been hitting the bottle a lot lately and her work is starting to suffer.

make something impossible to hear► drown out

if something drowns something or someone out , it is so loud or noisy that you cannot hear them properly: · His voice was drowned out by the traffic.drown out something: · The applause from the audience almost drowned out the music.drown something out: · Some of the crowd were now hissing and stamping their feet in an attempt to drown him out.

to kill someone► kill

to make someone die, especially deliberately or violently: · He claims that he didn't mean to kill his wife.· The police believe the man may kill again.· What the hell were you doing! You could have killed me!· Official sources say that 20 people were killed in last night's air raids.· My sixteen-year-old son Louis was killed by a drunk driver two years ago.

► murder

to deliberately kill someone, especially after planning to do it: · Wilson is accused of murdering his daughter and her boyfriend.· One of the country's top judges has been murdered by the Mafia.

► assassinate

to murder an important or famous person, especially for political reasons: · President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.· an attempt to assassinate the Pope

► beat/kick/stab etc somebody to death

to kill someone by beating them, kicking them, or attacking them with a knife: · The court heard how the man was beaten to death by racist thugs.· A social worker was found stabbed to death in her office last night.· Smith had apparently been kicked to death.

► poison

to kill someone by putting a very harmful substance in their food or drink: · He believed that somebody was trying to poison him.· She had already poisoned three members of her own family with arsenic.

► drown

to kill someone by holding their face under water for a long time: · He accused his brother of trying to drown him.

► strangle

to kill someone by pressing on their throat with both hands or with something such as a piece of string so that they cannot breathe: · Police said that the victim had been strangled.· He slid his hands around her neck and tried to strangle her.

► bump off

informal to kill someone - often used humorously: bump off somebody/bump somebody off: · He kept marrying rich women and then bumping them off.have somebody bumped off (=arrange for someone to be killed): · His uncle decided to have him bumped off.

► do away with

informal to kill someone, especially because they are a threat or their death would be convenient: · Perhaps his wife had taken the opportunity to do away with her rival.

WORD SETS► COLOURS & SOUNDS

ablaze, adjectiveacoustic, adjectiveacoustics, nounaglow, adjectivebaa, verbbabble, verbbabble, nounbabel, nounbaby talk, nounbackfire, verbbackground, nounbang, nounbang, verbbang, interjectionbark, verbbark, nounbattle cry, nounbay, verbbeat, verbbeat, nounbellow, verbbellow, nounblare, verbblast, nounbleat, verbbleep, nounbleep, verbblip, nounbong, nounboom, nounboom, verbbowwow, interjectionbrassy, adjectivebray, verbbrazen, adjectivebreathy, adjectivebubble, verbbump, nounchatter, verbchatter, nounclink, verbclink, nouncrack, verbcrack, nouncrackle, verbcrackling, nouncrash, verbcrash, nouncreak, verbcreaky, adjectivecroak, verbcroak, nouncrow, nouncrow, verbcrunch, nouncrunch, verbding-dong, noundiscord, noundiscordant, adjectivedrone, verbdrone, noundrown, verbdrum, verbdrumbeat, noundrumming, noundull, adjectiveecho, verbecho, nounfizz, verbflat, adjectivefootfall, nounfootstep, nounfusillade, noungrinding, adjectivegroan, verbgroan, noungrunt, verbgrunt, nounguffaw, verbgunshot, nounguttural, adjectivehigh, adjectivehigh, adverbhiss, verbindistinct, adjectiveirregular, adjectivelow, verbmarbled, adjectivematching, adjectivemellow, adjectivemelodic, adjectivemelodious, adjectivemetallic, adjectivemoan, verbmoan, nounmodulate, verbmonotone, nounmoo, verbmurmur, verbmurmur, nounmusical, adjectivemusically, adverbmute, verbnasal, adjectivenoise, nounoink, interjectionoof, interjectionpatter, verbpatter, nounpeal, nounpeal, verbpenetrating, adjectivepercussion, nounpsychedelic, adjectivepulse, nounputter, verbquack, verbquack, nounquaver, nounracket, nounrasp, verbrasp, nounraspberry, nounrat-a-tat, nounrattle, nounraucous, adjectivereedy, adjectivereport, nounresonance, nounresonant, adjectiveresonate, verbresonator, nounresound, verbresounding, adjectivereverberate, verbreverberation, nounrich, adjectivering, nounring, verbringing, adjectiveripple, verbripple, nounroar, nounroaring, adjectiveroll, verbrough, adjectiverustle, verbrustle, nounscratch, verbscratch, nounscream, verbscream, nounscrunch, verbsmoky, adjectivesnarl, verbsoft, adjectivesoft-spoken, adjectivesonorous, adjectivesotto voce, adverbsplosh, verbsweet, adjectiveswoosh, verbtick-tock, nountinny, adjectivetonal, adjectivevivid, adjectivevowel, nounwail, verbweak, adjectivewhack, nounwham, interjectionwhine, verbwhinny, verbwhirr, verbwhistle, verbwhistle, nounyelp, nounyowl, verbzoom, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► almost

· Conch-shells, drums and trumpets almost drowned the sound of his voice.· The first time, she almost drowned in the bathtub.· You washed your dinner down very well and, after, you almost drowned yourself in port.· I remember watching a whole flock of female phalaropes badgering a poor male so intensely he almost drowned.· All was dressed up like Bud Flanagan for some reason almost drowning in a raccoon coat.· I was almost drowned a dozen times; was nearly boiled alive and just missed being cremated.· But he was almost drowned out.

► in

· Effie, for Nora's sister, who drowned in a river on the day that I was born.· Eyes her soul could drown in.· Half-male, half-female human torsos wallow like flesh drowning in itself.· I could drown in here for all you care!

► nearly

· Aird, was caught in the rigging wires and was nearly drowned until Jack managed to free him.· She was denied food and sleep, shocked with electricity and dunked into vats of water until she nearly drowned.· By the time that the recovery helicopters arrived Ham was strapped into a capsule half full of water and nearly drowned.· In 1988, after nearly drowning in her swimming pool, doctors reported she was suffering from multiple sclerosis.· I lived in Moscow once ... I nearly drowned ... Rotten.

► out

· Question A combination of wind, traffic and camcorder noise have drowned out the required soundtrack.· The songs of Whitman were drowned out in the drone of the new producing. consuming machinery.· More and more instruments took up the melody, drowning out the frail lyric line.· The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.· But nothing could drown out the other incessant thrumming.· The screams of the drill drowned out all other sounds.· The music is drowned out by the jets of steam.

NOUN► death

· Barbarossa's death by drowning as described around 1250 in the Gotha manuscript of the Saxon Chronicle.· Not having the proper authority, Maximus sent him before Amantius, who sentenced him to death by drowning.

► man

· I mean, she's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him.· John died trying to save a man from drowning.· Police have questioned Michael Barrymore about a man who was found drowned in the entertainer's swimming pool.· Three times he seen his men drown.· Sir John, men have drowned.· A man is saved from drowning only to be shaken to death by a derisive crowd.· A joke went around about a passer-by who saw a man drowning in a canal.· Read in studio Voice over Friends have been paying tribute to the man who drowned on an adventure holiday in California.

► noise

· Then he realised that his music was being drowned by the noise of the conflagration.· The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.· The machines made their own bilious sound which drowned the natural noise of the Earth.· When they overtook me, they gave a cheer so loud that they drowned the noises of the wheelbarrow and lorry.· They will do so ever more loudly as the organ attempts to drown their noise.

► river

· James, 18, drowned in a river four days after starting a course of the tablets.· He had tried to save one of his sheep from drowning in the river, and he drowned himself.· Effie, for Nora's sister, who drowned in a river on the day that I was born.· They were weighted with lead, then drowned in the river.· He saw friends drown in rivers and get shot by bandits.· A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river.· It read: A young woman, Miss Leila Sekhmet, was drowned in the river last week.

► sea

· She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea.· But it takes a special kind of parenting to cope successfully with a child who is drowning in a sea of sensations.· Start doing the math, adding up the numbers and you wind up drowning in a sea of them.· It fought a terrifying battle, only perhaps to drown on the sea floor.· Henry's only son, William, was drowned at sea in 1120, but Henry lived on until 1133.

► sorrow

· Within the hour the show is cancelled and everyone returns to the hotel to drown their sorrows.· And is there a female alive who has not drowned her sorrows in buttered mashed potatoes?· One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink.· There were dry gingers and tonics prepared for the whiskies and gins which everyone hoped would drown the star's sorrows.· I knew Mum and Dad would be out until late drowning their sorrows.· Who couldn't drink, drown her sorrows.· I am deeper drowned in sorrow.· Drinking on your own or to drown your sorrows can get out of hand.

► sound

· The roar of the Jeep's high-revving engine had drowned the turbine's sound.· It was impossible to shout to the pair, for the roar of the Falls drowned out all other sounds.· The bell did nothing to drown the sound of anxious hens and ducks.· The screams of the drill drowned out all other sounds.· Conch-shells, drums and trumpets almost drowned the sound of his voice.

► water

· She imagined Nettie, held up by her collar, the water backing up to drown her.· She was denied food and sleep, shocked with electricity and dunked into vats of water until she nearly drowned.· There were rats in the water, swollen-bellied, drowned.· But so desperate was she to see her prince that she plunged into the water and drowned.· How do water-babies drown?-With some difficulty, Nora says grimly.· Fire bums, water drowns us, but neither were designed to do so.· By the time that the recovery helicopters arrived Ham was strapped into a capsule half full of water and nearly drowned.

► wave

· The wounded were trampled and drowned in the shallow waves.· Tens of thousands were slain, drowned by waves, buried by earthquakes, struck by magical lightning.· He was immediately plucked off and we plunged downwards, drowning in a tidal wave of powder snow.

VERB► feel

· Their apathy made him feel he was drowning, fighting his way to a surface which perhaps no longer existed.· Again I feel I am drowning in language of no particular content.· I felt as if I were drowning in sleep.

► save

· A man is saved from drowning only to be shaken to death by a derisive crowd.· John died trying to save a man from drowning.· Bernice had tried to explain to her android companion about the man who had saved her from drowning in the quicksand.· Read in studio Five people have been saved from drowning after their cabin cruiser capsized.

► try

· I learned in case she tried to drown me.· Dockers and warehousemen were trying to drown the fire with what were effectively thimble-fulls of water.

PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► drown your sorrows

After his girlfriend left he spent the evening drowning his sorrows in a local bar.
You can't just sit around day after day drowning your sorrows in whiskey.
And is there a female alive who has not drowned her sorrows in buttered mashed potatoes?
Drinking on your own or to drown your sorrows can get out of hand.
He was a man drowning his sorrows, he'd decided.
I drowned my sorrows on the school goalposts, as football was banned.
I knew Mum and Dad would be out until late drowning their sorrows.
One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink.
Who couldn't drink, drown her sorrows.
Within the hour the show is cancelled and everyone returns to the hotel to drown their sorrows.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► look like a drowned rat

Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats.
You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.