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British English: drown /draʊn/ VERB
When someone drowns, or when they are drowned, they die because they have gone under water and cannot breathe.
Forty-eight people drowned after their boat capsized.
He walked into the sea and drowned himself.
  • American English: drown
  • Arabic: يَغْرَقُ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: afogar
  • Chinese: 溺水
  • Croatian: utopiti se
  • Czech: utopit (se)
  • Danish: drukne
  • Dutch: verdrinken
  • European Spanish: ahogar
  • Finnish: hukkua
  • French: se noyer
  • German: ertrinken
  • Greek: πνίγω
  • Italian: affogare
  • Japanese: 溺死する
  • Korean: 익사하다
  • Norwegian: drukne
  • Polish: utopić się
  • European Portuguese: afogar
  • Romanian: a îneca
  • Russian: тонуть
  • Latin American Spanish: ahogar
  • Swedish: drunkna
  • Thai: จมน้ำ
  • Turkish: suda boğulmak
  • Ukrainian: тонути
  • Vietnamese: chết đuối

Chinese translation of 'drown'

drown

(draun)

vt

  1. (deliberately) [person, animal] 使淹死 (shǐ yānsǐ)
  2. to be drowned 被淹死 (bèi yānsǐ)
  3. [sound, voice] (also drown out) 淹没(沒) (yānmò)

vi

  1. [person, animal] 溺死 (nìsǐ)
(verb) 
Definition
to die or kill by immersion in liquid
He drowned during a storm.
Synonyms
go down
They went down 2-1 to Australia.
go under
If one firm goes under it could provoke a cascade of bankruptcies.
go to a watery grave
go to Davy Jones's locker
die under water
(verb) 
Definition
to drench thoroughly
The country would be drowned in blood.
Synonyms
drench
They turned fire hoses on the people and drenched them.
flood
The house was flooded.
soak
Soak the soil around each bush with at least 4 gallons of water.
steep
green beans steeped in olive oil
swamp
saturate
If the filter has been saturated with motor oil, discard it.
engulf
The flat was engulfed in flames.
submerge
The river burst its banks, submerging an entire village.
immerse
inundate
Their neighbourhood is being inundated by the rising waters.
deluge
Torrential rain deluged the capital.
(verb) 
Definition
to make (a sound) impossible to hear by making a loud noise
His words were soon drowned by amplified police sirens.
Synonyms
overwhelm
One massive assault would overwhelm the weakened enemy.
overcome
the satisfaction of overcoming a rival
wipe out
overpower
I was so overpowered by shame that I was unable to speak.
obliterate
I would like to obliterate the memory of what just occurred.
swallow up
be louder than

Quotation

I was much farther out than you thought
And not waving but drowning
[Stevie Smith – Not Waving But Drowning]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of deluge
Definition
to flood
Torrential rain deluged the capital.
Synonyms
flood,
drown,
swamp,
submerge,
soak,
drench,
inundate,
douse
in the sense of engulf
Definition
to immerse, plunge, or swallow up
The flat was engulfed in flames.
Synonyms
immerse,
bury,
flood (out),
plunge,
consume,
drown,
swamp,
encompass,
submerge,
overrun,
inundate,
deluge,
envelop,
swallow up
in the sense of flood
Definition
to cover or become covered with water
The house was flooded.
Synonyms
immerse,
swamp,
submerge,
inundate,
deluge,
drown,
cover with water

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