verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Conch-shells, drums and trumpets almost drowned the sound of his voice.
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The first time, she almost drowned in the bathtub.
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You washed your dinner down very well and, after, you almost drowned yourself in port.
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I remember watching a whole flock of female phalaropes badgering a poor male so intensely he almost drowned .
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All was dressed up like Bud Flanagan for some reason almost drowning in a raccoon coat.
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I was almost drowned a dozen times; was nearly boiled alive and just missed being cremated.
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But he was almost drowned out.
in
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Effie, for Nora's sister, who drowned in a river on the day that I was born.
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Eyes her soul could drown in .
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Half-male, half-female human torsos wallow like flesh drowning in itself.
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I could drown in here for all you care!
nearly
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Aird, was caught in the rigging wires and was nearly drowned until Jack managed to free him.
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She was denied food and sleep, shocked with electricity and dunked into vats of water until she nearly drowned .
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By the time that the recovery helicopters arrived Ham was strapped into a capsule half full of water and nearly drowned .
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In 1988, after nearly drowning in her swimming pool, doctors reported she was suffering from multiple sclerosis.
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I lived in Moscow once ... I nearly drowned ... Rotten.
out
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Question A combination of wind, traffic and camcorder noise have drowned out the required soundtrack.
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The songs of Whitman were drowned out in the drone of the new producing. consuming machinery.
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More and more instruments took up the melody, drowning out the frail lyric line.
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The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.
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But nothing could drown out the other incessant thrumming.
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The screams of the drill drowned out all other sounds.
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The music is drowned out by the jets of steam.
■ NOUN
death
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Barbarossa's death by drowning as described around 1250 in the Gotha manuscript of the Saxon Chronicle.
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Not having the proper authority, Maximus sent him before Amantius, who sentenced him to death by drowning .
man
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I mean, she's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him.
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John died trying to save a man from drowning .
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Police have questioned Michael Barrymore about a man who was found drowned in the entertainer's swimming pool.
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Three times he seen his men drown .
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Sir John, men have drowned .
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A man is saved from drowning only to be shaken to death by a derisive crowd.
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A joke went around about a passer-by who saw a man drowning in a canal.
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Read in studio Voice over Friends have been paying tribute to the man who drowned on an adventure holiday in California.
noise
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Then he realised that his music was being drowned by the noise of the conflagration.
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The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises .
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The machines made their own bilious sound which drowned the natural noise of the Earth.
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When they overtook me, they gave a cheer so loud that they drowned the noises of the wheelbarrow and lorry.
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They will do so ever more loudly as the organ attempts to drown their noise .
river
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James, 18, drowned in a river four days after starting a course of the tablets.
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He had tried to save one of his sheep from drowning in the river , and he drowned himself.
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Effie, for Nora's sister, who drowned in a river on the day that I was born.
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They were weighted with lead, then drowned in the river .
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He saw friends drown in rivers and get shot by bandits.
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A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river .
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It read: A young woman, Miss Leila Sekhmet, was drowned in the river last week.
sea
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She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea .
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But it takes a special kind of parenting to cope successfully with a child who is drowning in a sea of sensations.
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Start doing the math, adding up the numbers and you wind up drowning in a sea of them.
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It fought a terrifying battle, only perhaps to drown on the sea floor.
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Henry's only son, William, was drowned at sea in 1120, but Henry lived on until 1133.
sorrow
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Within the hour the show is cancelled and everyone returns to the hotel to drown their sorrows .
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And is there a female alive who has not drowned her sorrows in buttered mashed potatoes?
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One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink.
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There were dry gingers and tonics prepared for the whiskies and gins which everyone hoped would drown the star's sorrows .
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I knew Mum and Dad would be out until late drowning their sorrows .
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Who couldn't drink, drown her sorrows .
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I am deeper drowned in sorrow .
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Drinking on your own or to drown your sorrows can get out of hand.
sound
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The roar of the Jeep's high-revving engine had drowned the turbine's sound .
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It was impossible to shout to the pair, for the roar of the Falls drowned out all other sounds .
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The bell did nothing to drown the sound of anxious hens and ducks.
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The screams of the drill drowned out all other sounds .
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Conch-shells, drums and trumpets almost drowned the sound of his voice.
water
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She imagined Nettie, held up by her collar, the water backing up to drown her.
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She was denied food and sleep, shocked with electricity and dunked into vats of water until she nearly drowned .
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There were rats in the water , swollen-bellied, drowned .
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But so desperate was she to see her prince that she plunged into the water and drowned .
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How do water-babies drown ?-With some difficulty, Nora says grimly.
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Fire bums, water drowns us, but neither were designed to do so.
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By the time that the recovery helicopters arrived Ham was strapped into a capsule half full of water and nearly drowned .
wave
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The wounded were trampled and drowned in the shallow waves .
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Tens of thousands were slain, drowned by waves , buried by earthquakes, struck by magical lightning.
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He was immediately plucked off and we plunged downwards, drowning in a tidal wave of powder snow.
■ VERB
feel
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Their apathy made him feel he was drowning , fighting his way to a surface which perhaps no longer existed.
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Again I feel I am drowning in language of no particular content.
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I felt as if I were drowning in sleep.
save
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A man is saved from drowning only to be shaken to death by a derisive crowd.
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John died trying to save a man from drowning .
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Bernice had tried to explain to her android companion about the man who had saved her from drowning in the quicksand.
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Read in studio Five people have been saved from drowning after their cabin cruiser capsized.
try
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I learned in case she tried to drown me.
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Dockers and warehousemen were trying to drown the fire with what were effectively thimble-fulls of water.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
look like a drowned rat
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Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats .
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You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He accused his brother of trying to drown him.
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He nearly drowned before friends rescued him.
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The country is drowning in debt.
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The floods drowned scores of livestock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was shipping water at a furious rate and could plainly see that he was drowning.
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I mean, she's rejected by the man she loves and drowns herself rather than live without him.
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I was drowned in the Old Woman Fork at the age of twenty-nine.
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I was almost drowned a dozen times; was nearly boiled alive and just missed being cremated.
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Maurus saved the young Placid from drowning, which may or may not explain bis patronage.
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She let him drown her in the deep water, too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him.
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The tears rolling off her chin on to her fingers, she sang louder; drowning out her other noises.