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

drowndrown /draʊn/ ●●○ verb

ETYMOLOGYdrown

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

1[intransitive, transitive] to die from being under water for too long, or to kill someone in this way: He nearly drowned before friends rescued him. The floods drowned scores of livestock.2[transitive] to cover something completely with liquid: drown something in/with something The beef was drowned in gravy.3drown your sorrows to drink a lot of alcohol in order to forget your problems—drowning noun [countable, uncountable]drown somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verb to prevent a sound from being heard by making a loud noise or sound: His voice was drowned out by the traffic.drown in something phrasal verb to have so much of something bad that it is almost impossible to deal with, or to put someone in this situation: The country is drowning in debt.