drowning
/ˈdɹaʊnɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- 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.
- An instance of a person or animal drowning.
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