undrownedadj.
Not drowned, in various senses.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > [adjective]
exaudiblec1430
hearablec1449
audible1483
auricular1579
undrowned1580
unsilenced?1615
unsilenceable1678
unhushed1814
the world > life > death > manner of death > [adjective] > from drowning > not
undrenta1225
undrenkleda1325
undrowned1580
waterproof1661
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > not made wet > not soaked, drenched, etc.
unwatered1513
unsoaked1570
undrowned1580
unsteeped1626
undrenched1627
undipped1648
undeluged1791
unsodden1819
emersed1870
unimmersed1885
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(b)a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 242 'Tis as impossible that hee's vndrown'd, As he that sleepes heere, swims. Seb. I haue no hope That hee's vndrown'd. View more context for this quotationa1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. 226 What availed it wicked Cham, to outlive the flood,..to be kept undrown'd in the waters.1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) II. viii. 262 Such..as were thrown undrowned upon the shore.1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. vii. 626 Gundling..breaks a big hole in the ice, and scarcely..can be got-out undrowned.(c)1838 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 222 I was in hopes..I might be able to make out some of their tunes undrowned by their..accompaniments.1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 6 A village where many of the old echoes lingered, undrowned by new voices.1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 43 To prouide ye, of meadow for hay, if fennes be vndrowned, there cheapest ye may.
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adj.1580