Drown vs Drowns - What's the difference?
drown | drowns |
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.
(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 drown and drowns
is that drown is to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation while drowns is third-person singular of drown.drown
English
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.
Derived terms
* drowned * drowner * drowning * drown one's sorrows * drown outSynonyms
* (overwhelm) floodReferences
Anagrams
* English ergative verbsdrowns
English
Verb
(head)drown
English
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.