Drowning vs Noyade - What's the difference?
drowning | noyade |
An instance of a person or animal drowning.
A murder by drowning; especially, one of those carried out during the French .
*1837 , (Thomas Carlyle), The French Revolution :
*:By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades : women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain , Republican Marriage.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 486:
*:Alongside this, there were the infamous noyades : perhaps 2,000 alleged counter-revolutionaries strapped in to barges were towed into the river Loire where the barges were scuppered, leaving the victims to drown.
As nouns the difference between drowning and noyade
is that drowning is an instance of a person or animal drowning while noyade is a murder by drowning; especially, one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.As a verb drowning
is present participle of lang=en.drowning
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(wikipedia drowning) (en noun)- It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.
