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drow | drown |

As a noun drow

is a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.

As a verb drown is

to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.

drow

English

(wikipedia drow)

Noun

(drow)
  • a fictional race of dark elves]] in various fantasy settings, such as [[w:Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons .
  • , a fictional constructed language spoken by the Drows.
  • A variant of trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll Dictionary of the Scots Language.
  • Synonyms

    * (a fictional race) dark elf

    Anagrams

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    References

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    drown

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
  • most men being in sensual pleasures drowned
  • * Addison
  • My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
  • To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.
  • ''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.

    Derived terms

    * drowned * drowner * drowning * drown one's sorrows * drown out

    Synonyms

    * (overwhelm) flood

    References