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drowned

/droun/US // draʊn //UK // (draʊn) //

淹死了,淹死,淹死的,溺水身亡

Related Words

drench淋水,淋湿,浸透,淋雨go down下去,下来,下去了,下降inundate淹没,泛滥成灾,淹没了,泛滥immerse沉浸在,沉浸于,浸入,沉浸在其中soak浸泡,浸透,浸湿,泡澡flood淹没,水灾,洪水,泛滥成灾wipe out歼灭,扫除,歼灭战,消灭swamp沼泽地,沼泽,泥沼,沼泽地带suffocate窒息,窒息而死,噎死,窒息而亡sink水槽,沉降,沉没,沉沦engulf吞噬,吞没,吞噬掉,吞并douse浇灌,浇水,浇灭,泼水asphyxiate窒息,窒息而死,窒息性,窒息而亡plunge纵身一跃,纵身一跳,骤降,纵身跳下deluge洪水,大洪水,洪灾,洪水泛滥overwhelm压倒性的,压倒,压制,压倒一切prostrate匍匐前进,平卧,匍匐前行,匍匐obliterate泯灭,抹去,销毁,湮灭souse宿舍overpower压倒,压倒性的,打倒,压倒一切

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to kill by submerging under water or other liquid.
    • : to destroy or get rid of by, or as if by, immersion: He drowned his sorrows in drink.
    • : to flood or inundate.
    • : to overwhelm so as to render inaudible, as by a louder sound.
    • : to add too much water or liquid to.
    • : to slake by covering with water and letting stand.
  1. 1
    • : drown in, to be overwhelmed by: The company is drowning in bad debts.to be covered with or enveloped in: The old movie star was drowning in mink.

Phrases

  • drown one's sorrows
  • drown out
  • like a drowned rat

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.suffocated
Synonyms
submerged被淹没的,淹没的,淹没,被淹没immersed沉浸式,沉浸其中的,沉浸其中,沉浸式的sunk沉没,沉没的,沉没了,沉没式in davy jones' locker

Examples

  • If they were submerged for longer, the plants might have drowned, Armitage notes.

  • One can imagine the captain of the Titanic insisting on pointing out that 900 people didn’t drown.

  • Any student of modern math must know what it feels like to drown in a well of telescoping terminology.

  • Nala is Ophelia, Simba’s love, though thankfully she doesn’t go mad from being ignored by him and drown.

  • It could be how I so clearly remember the night I almost drowned.

  • It seems like, since we live in the sound bite era, grabby headlines like “EBOLA” and “ISIS” tend to drown out those numbers.

  • Goldman, wisely, does not raise a raft of questions that drown a writer in the answering.

  • Watching her drown her sorrows in hooch and then get beat up by Crazy Eyes in the showers was ghastly…but great television.

  • If prioritizing guns over dead kids makes you angry, stand up and drown his words out with action.

  • The ice breaks, the Reds drown, the Whites rally to take the Island.

  • Consequently, I haven't been very bright, though I am gradually coming up to the surface again, for I'm pretty hard to drown!

  • He noticed the date on the hotel calendar, and realised that the Fates had another ten days in which to drown him.

  • "If you had been Reff you wouldn't have run away and left me to drown," went on Coulter, stubbornly.

  • And the noise it makes is something terrific, I assure you—loud enough to drown half-a-dozen pianos.

  • She threatened to go beyond sea, to throw herself out of window, to drown herself.

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