Definitions for drowns

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drowns drown

Spelling: [droun]

IPA: /draʊn/

Drowns is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in drowns (dnorsw).

Definitions for drowns

Verb phrases

1. drown in, to be overwhelmed by: to be covered with or enveloped in:

verb (used with object)

1. to kill by submerging under water or other liquid.
2. to destroy or get rid of by, or as if by, immersion:
3. to flood or inundate.
4. to overwhelm so as to render inaudible, as by a louder sound (often followed by out).
5. to add too much water or liquid to (a drink, food, or the like).
6. to slake (lime) by covering with water and letting stand.

verb (used without object)

1. to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.

Origin of drowns

1250-1300; Middle English drounnen, Old English druncnian, perhaps by loss of c between nasals and shift of length from nn to ou

Examples for drowns

The ice breaks, the Reds drown, the Whites rally to take the Island.

But are you voluble enough to drown all sense in a torrent of words?

That was why she had made such a noise about it, in order to drown these words.

Watching her drown her sorrows in hooch and then get beat up by Crazy Eyes in the showers was ghastly…but great television.

It seems like, since we live in the sound bite era, grabby headlines like “EBOLA” and “ISIS” tend to drown out those numbers.

If prioritizing guns over dead kids makes you angry, stand up and drown his words out with action.

Were we to drown the world with them, could the world blame us?

Stryker had befriended him indeed, had he permitted him to drown.

Peter might not be dead; what should he say to Margaret if he left him there to drown?

Goldman, wisely, does not raise a raft of questions that drown a writer in the answering.