Drown vs Swim - What's the difference?
drown | swim |
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.
(archaic) To float.
* 2 Kings VI:6 (KJV)
*Wm. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
* Dryden
(uncommon) To cause to swim.
To be overflowed or drenched.
* Psalm VI:6 (KJV)
* Thomson
To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
An act or instance of swimming.
The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
(UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
In intransitive terms the difference between drown and swim
is that drown is to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation while swim is to be overflowed or drenched.In transitive terms the difference between drown and swim
is that drown is to lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass while swim is to immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.As a noun swim is
an act or instance of swimming.As an initialism SWIM is
{{cx|internet|lang=en}} Someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself.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 verbsswim
English
Verb
- And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim .
- Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
- ''For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.
- I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.
- Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.
- to swim a horse across a river
- Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.
- I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim .
- to swim wheat in order to select seed
Derived terms
* sink or swim * swim like a fish * swimmerNoun
(en noun)- I'm going for a swim .
