drowned

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/dɹaʊnd/ English

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.

adjective

That has died by drowning.“a drowned rat”

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Synonyms

flood inundate submerged sunken sink sinking cracked immersed inundated flooded buried cast stifled swamped lost blind embedded sweeps

Associated

capsized bathtub swollen overboard boating drowning washed rescued ashore sank swept

Rhymes

profound expound resound renowned sound confound ground rebound stound round

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