| 单词 | drown |
| 释义 | drown (draʊn ) Word forms: drowns , drowning , drowned 1. verb B2 When someone drowns or is drowned, they die because they have gone or been pushed under water and cannot breathe. Forty-eight people have drowned after their boat capsized during a storm. [VERB] A child can drown in only a few inches of water. [VERB] Last night a boy was drowned in the river. [be VERB-ed] He walked into the sea and drowned himself. [VERB pronoun-reflexive] Dolphins have sometimes been known to save drowning swimmers. [VERB-ing] 2. verb 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. [emphasis] We were drowning in data but starved of information. [VERB in noun] ...people who gradually find themselves drowning in debt. [VERB + in] The potatoes were drowned in chilli. [be VERB-ed] 3. verb 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 noun] The conversation was drowned by the arrival of the taxi. [VERB noun] Drown out means the same as drown. Their cheers drowned out the protests of demonstrators. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Her voice was drowned out by a loud crash. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 4. to drown one's sorrows phrase 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. Quotations: I was much farther out than you thought And not waving but drowningNot Waving But Drowning Idioms: drown your sorrows to drink a lot of alcohol in order to forget something sad or upsetting that has happened to you His girlfriend has just dumped him so he's gone off to the pub to drown his sorrows. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Translations: Chinese: 溺水 Japanese: 溺死する |
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