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say it: drown
drown is a verb meaning "cover completely or make imperceptible". It carries 6 recorded senses.
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
“The child drowned in the lake”
be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
“the divers saved the drowning child”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for drown come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.