Drown vs Regress - What's the difference?
drown | regress |
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.
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
* Frederic Harrison
The power or liberty of passing back.
* Shakespeare
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
(statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
In intransitive terms the difference between drown and regress
is that drown is to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation while regress is to move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.As a noun regress is
the act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.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 verbsregress
English
Noun
(-)- Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
- Thou shalt have egress and regress;
Derived terms
* infinite regressVerb
(es)- When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.