drowningnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈdraʊn.ɪŋ/us/ˈdraʊn.ɪŋ/death caused by being underwater and not being able to breathe, or a case when this happens:
There were three drownings in the lake last year.
death by drowning
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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