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Drowns vs Drowning - What's the difference?

drowns | drowning |

As verbs the difference between drowns and drowning

is that drowns is (drown) while drowning is .

As a noun drowning is

an instance of a person or animal drowning.

drowns

English

Verb

(head)
  • (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

    References

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    drowning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia drowning) (en noun)
  • An instance of a person or animal drowning.
    • It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.

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