Drown vs Slink - What's the difference?
drown | slink |
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.
To sneak about furtively.
* Milton
* Landor
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To give birth to an animal prematurely.
The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
As a verb drown
is to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.As a noun slink is
snail.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.
Derived terms
* drowned * drowner * drowning * drown one's sorrows * drown outSynonyms
* (overwhelm) floodReferences
Anagrams
* English ergative verbsslink
English
Verb
- Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
- There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
- a cow that slinks her calf
