Drowned vs Drown - What's the difference?
drowned | drown | Derived terms |
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 is a derived term of drowned.
As verbs the difference between drowned and drown
is that drowned is past tense of drown while drown is to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.As an adjective drowned
is that has died by drowning.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.