drowning

Definition of drowning in English English dictionary: An instance of a person or animal drowning
It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.; Present participle of drown; {s} immersing, submerging in a liquid; overflowing; overwhelming; sinking; Present participle of to drown
drown: To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out"
drown: To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate
drown: To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation
drown: To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid
drown: To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass
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 etc.
secondary drowning: asphyxiation caused by irritation of alveoli from the aspiration of liquid, after recovery from immersion into liquid, in the three-day period following the immersion episode
drown: {v} to choke with water, overflow, lose
a drowning man grasps at a straw: a desperate person will try anything
drown: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
drown: To drown is to die Avoid redundancies
drown: To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; said especially of sound
drown: get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
drown: To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water
drown: 1 warning of emotional overload 2 warning of overload in work, finances or life
drown: If you say that someone is drowning their sorrows, you mean that they are drinking alcohol in order to forget something sad or upsetting that has happened to them
drown: kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
drown: (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
drown: When someone drowns or is drowned, they die because they have gone or been pushed under water and cannot breathe. A child can drown in only a few inches of water Last night a boy was drowned in the river He walked into the sea and drowned himself Dolphins have sometimes been known to save drowning swimmers
drown: emphasis If you say that a person or thing is drowning in something, you are emphasizing that they have a very large amount of it, or are completely covered in it. people who gradually find themselves drowning in debt The potatoes were drowned in chilli
drown: kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens
drown: {f} suffocate in water; be suffocated by water; flood, inundate with water
drown: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake" get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol" kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens
drown: To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; - said especially of sound. Usually in the form "drown out"
drown: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
drown: If something drowns a sound, it is so loud that you cannot hear that sound properly. Clapping drowned the speaker's words for a moment Drown out means the same as drown. Their cheers drowned out the protests of demonstrators
drown: To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by suffocation in water
drownings: plural of drowning