Dips vs Drowns - What's the difference?
dips | drowns |
(drown)
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out".
* Sir J. Davies
* Addison
To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.
As verbs the difference between dips and drowns
is that dips is third-person singular of dip while drowns is third-person singular of drown.As a noun dips
is plural of lang=en.As an acronym DIPS
is defense-independent pitching statistics.drowns
English
Verb
(head)drown
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Verb
(en verb)- most men being in sensual pleasures drowned
- My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
- ''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.