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Drowned vs Drowner - What's the difference?

drowned | drowner |

As a verb drowned

is (drown).

As an adjective drowned

is that has died by drowning.

As a noun drowner is

someone who is drowning.

drowned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (drown)

    • Adjective

    (en-adj) (used only before the noun )
  • That has died by drowning.
    • a drowned rat

    Derived terms

    * like a drowned rat

    drowner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who is drowning.
  • One who drowns another.
  • * (Henry Morton Robinson)
    • At eight you thought of boys as cat drowners and bird stoners. At nine there was another reason for boys' existence: they either noticed you or they didn't, and it desperately mattered which.