drowned

[dɹaʊnd]

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drown

A person or thing that has drowned is completely underwater and unable to breathe.

When we say someone or something has drowned, it usually means they were in water and then couldn't swim anymore or got sucked under. For example, if you're watching a movie about a shipwreck, someone might drown if they can't get out of the sinking boat. If you're swimming with friends and one of them gets tired, they might drown if no one helps them. Drowning is also used in medical situations – like when water enters the lungs during surgery.

How common is "drowned"?

Word drowned is considered rare in modern English.
It appears most frequently in fiction texts and less often in other writings.

Definitions

verb

To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
Example: The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

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