transcription, транскрипция: [ draʊn ]
( drowns, drowning, drowned)
1.
When someone drowns or is drowned , they die because they have gone or been pushed under water and cannot breathe.
A child can drown in only a few inches of water...
Last night a boy was drowned in the river...
He walked into the sea and drowned himself...
Dolphins have sometimes been known to save drowning swimmers.
VERB : V , be V-ed , V pron-refl , V-ing
2.
If you say that a person or thing is drowning in something, you are emphasizing that they have a very large amount of it, or are completely covered in it.
...people who gradually find themselves drowning in debt...
The potatoes were drowned in chilli.
VERB : V in n , be V-ed [ emphasis ]
3.
If something drowns a sound, it is so loud that you cannot hear that sound properly.
Clapping drowned the speaker’s words for a moment...
VERB : V n
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Drown out means the same as drown .
Their cheers drowned out the protests of demonstrators...
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron)
4.
If you say that someone is drowning their sorrows , you mean that they are drinking alcohol in order to forget something sad or upsetting that has happened to them.
PHRASE : V inflects