drownverb
uk/draʊn/us/draʊn/drown verb (DIE)
B2 [ I or T ] to (cause to) die by being unable to breathe underwater:
He drowned in a boating accident.
Many animals were drowned by the tidal wave.
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- The gardens are said to be haunted by the ghost of a child who drowned in the river.
- He fell into the river and drowned.
- I'd have drowned if he hadn't happened along and pulled me out of the river.
- Police fear that the couple may have drowned.
- If it wasn't for the life jacket, I would have drowned.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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Killing
drown verb (COVER)
[ T ] to cover or be covered, especially with a liquid:
A whole valley was drowned when the river was dammed.
disapproving He drowned his food in/with tomato sauce.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- beset
- border
- box sb/sth in
- dunk
- fence sth in
- fence sth off
- flood
- gather
- gift-wrap
- gift-wrapped
- steep
- surround
- swallow
- wall sth off
- wound 1
- wrap
- wrap (sb) up
- wrap sth around sb/sth
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Idiom(s)
drown your sorrows
a drowning man will clutch at a straw
look like a drowned rat
Phrasal verb(s)
drown in sth
drown sth out