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drowned

The correct spelling is drowned.

How to pronounce drowned

verb

IPA: /dɹaʊnd/

Say it like: Dro-wne-d

The correct spelling is drowned. 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.

a drowned rat

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
  2. 2.To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
  3. 3.To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
  4. 4.To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
  5. 5.(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

adjective

  1. 1.That has died by drowning.

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