drown

verbA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

drowns

V_ing/Gerund

drowning

V_ed/pp

drowned

1.
(intransitive)To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
Đồng nghĩa: drench
2.
(transitive)To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.
Đồng nghĩa: drench
3.
(intransitive)To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
4.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
5.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

drench flood inundate noyadeto kill by suffocating in water or another liquid noyadeflood, inundate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English drownen, drounen, drunen (to drown), of obscure and origin.