drown

  • 61drown — verb /draʊn/ a) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation. The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images… …

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  • 62Drown —    (Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6 …

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  • 63drown — Synonyms and related words: OD, asphyxiate, baptize, be clobbered, be felled, be killed, be poleaxed, be staggered, be stricken, bottle up, burke, bury, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, come to grief, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush,… …

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  • 64drown — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. suffocate; submerge, inundate; muffle, overpower, go down for the third time. See water, killing, silence, death, loudness, failure. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To cover with liquid] Syn. swamp, inundate,… …

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  • 65drown — draÊŠn v. suffocate in water; be suffocated by water; flood, inundate with water …

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  • 66drown — I. v. a. 1. Suffocate in water. 2. Overflow, inundate, deluge, overwhelm, flood. 3. Overcome, overpower. II. v. n. Be drowned …

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  • 67drown — verb 1) he nearly drowned Syn: suffocate in water, inhale water; go to a watery grave 2) the valleys were drowned Syn: flood, submerge, immerse, inundate, deluge, swamp, engulf 3) …

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  • 68drown — v 1. go down, go under, sink, descend to Davy Jones locker, perish at sea, descend to a watery grave. 2. submerge, submerse, immerse, engulf; flood, inundate, deluge, drench, swamp. 3. overpower, overwhelm, overcome; deaden, stifle, muffle,… …

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  • 69drown —   Piholo, ho opiholo, ho opalemo, holoāi a …

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  • 70drown — see if you’re born to be hanged then you’ll never be drowned a drowning man will clutch at a straw …

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