Frownest vs Drownest - What's the difference?
frownest | drownest |
As verbs the difference between frownest and drownest is that frownest is ( frown) while drownest is (archaic) ( drown).
frownest English
Verb
(head)
(frown)
frown English
Noun
( en noun)
A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration.
Derived terms
* permafrown
Verb
( en verb)
To have a on one's face.
To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
- Noisy gossip in the library is frowned upon.
* Shakespeare
- The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.
To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.
- Frown the impudent fellow into silence.
Derived terms
* frown at
* frown on
* frown upon
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drownest English
Verb
(head)
(archaic) (drown)
drown English
Verb
( en verb)
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
- most men being in sensual pleasures drowned
* Addison
- My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.
- ''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 out
Synonyms
* (overwhelm) flood
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