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The correct spelling is drown.
How to pronounce drown
/dɹaʊn/
verbIPA: /dɹaʊn/
Say it like: Dro-wn
The correct spelling is drown. To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. For example: "The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather."
Usage Examples
“The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.”
Definition
verb
- 1.To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- 2.To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- 3.To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- 4.To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- 5.(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
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