Word Finder - drowned

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To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

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To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

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To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

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To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

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(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

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The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

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That has died by drowning.

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a drowned rat

Same. He drowned, remember?

A missing girl fell through the ice and drowned while Howie helplessly watched.

The telephone drowned out his response, and Lisa darted to her room.

You could have drowned me!

These pouch harbours are probably " drowned " drainage basins.

Drowned, that was the official conclusion.

All the sailors were drowned but Robinson Crusoe.

He wasn't drowned in a fishing accident, was he?

He ran until his pounding heart drowned out his pounding feet.

He was almost drowned.

Let her mourn her drowned husband.

The smooth walls above the liquid afford no foothold, and they are drowned; their bodies are digested and the products of digestion are ultimately absorbed by the glands in the pitcher-wall.

Various derivations are given by the ancient grammarians - one from the town of Aegae; another from Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who perished in this sea; and a third from Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who, supposing his son dead, drowned himself in it.

At least 11 nuclear sites are so low-lying they could be drowned or damaged by rising seas, causing radioactive waste to leak.

A poor publican was drowned in tears, who constantly attends the word of grace, on which all his hopes depend.

Otto's precarious position was saved by a victory near Andernach when Eberhard was killed, and Giselbert drowned in the subsequent flight.

It is said that, while master of the town, Arouj caused twentytwo of the Zeiyan princes to be drowned in the sahrij.

He was drowned by the Turks in Constantinople in 1590 through the intrigues of Mihnea, who succeeded him on the throne of Walachia.

A little later (January 1657) he suppressed with ruthless severity a rising of the spahis; a certain Sheik Salim, leader of the fanatical mob of the capital, was drowned in the Bosporus; and the Greek Patriarch, who had written to the voivode of Wallachia to announce the approaching downfall of Islam, was hanged.

There are several handsome public monuments, notably that to Duke Leopold of Brunswick, who was drowned in the Oder while attempting to save life, on the 27th of April 1785.

When about one half of his army had crossed, and while they were still in disorder, they were attacked with such fury by Wallace, that almost all - Cressingham among the number - were slain, or driven into the river and drowned.

The guns and some r 200 men were taken; many men were drowned.

This brought them into conflict with Ezzelino da Romano; Jacopo da Carrara was besieged by Ezzelino in his castle of Agna, and while trying to escape was drowned.

Mahratta invasions from central India, piratical devastations on the sea-board, banditti who marched about the interior in bodies of 50,000 men, floods which drowned the harvests of whole districts, and droughts in which a third of the population starved to death, kept alive a sense of human powerlessness in the presence of an omnipotent fate.

Apart from damage to shipping and buildings, the low-lying lands along the coast were completely submerged, and in many villages half the inhabitants were drowned.

The loss of human lives was reported to be about 14,000, and the number of cattle drowned about 15,000.

But the criticism which the French treaty aroused was drowned in the clamour which was created by the proposed repeal of the paper duties.

When, in 1836, his successor was accidentally drowned, De Morgan was requested to resume the professorship.

Among its chief features are the Virgin Martyrs' Memorial, representing in white marble a guardian angel and the figures of Margaret M`Lauchlan and Margaret Wilson, who were drowned by the rising tide in Wigtown Bay for their fidelity to the Covenant (1685);(1685); the large pyramid to the memory of the Covenanters, and the Ladies' Rock, from which ladies viewed the jousts in the Valley.

But the enthusiasm with which the people received him at the Feast of Tabernacles convinced Herod of the danger; and the youth was drowned by order of the king at Jericho.

The number of those who were shot, drowned or otherwise massacred without the pretence of a trial can never be accurately known, but must be reckoned far greater.

It was so-called from Helle, the daughter of Athamas, who was drowned here.

According to another story, Ceyx was drowned and his body cast on the shore.

Turgeis was captured and drowned by the ardri Maelsechlainn in 844, and two years later Domrair was slain.

There are also many memorials of the battle of Leipzig, including an obelisk on the Randstadter-Steinweg, on the site of the bridge which was prematurely blown up, when Prince Poniatowski was drowned; a monument of cannon balls collected after the battle; a "relief" to Major Friccius, who stormed the outer Grimma gate; while on the battle plain itself and close to "Napoleonstein," which commemorates Napoleon's position on the last day of the battle, a gigantic obelisk surrounded by a garden has been planned for dedication on the hundredth anniversary of the battle (October 19, 1913).

Lambert's sovereignty was short lived, as he and Williams were drowned while out fishing in May 1812.

For a moment she clung to him, pressing her body against his until desire for him drowned out every other thought.

It was a quarry swimming hole where a child had drowned the summer before.

Of course—where he allegedly drowned.

She's frantic he might have really drowned.

Brunel answered that he'd just received the message—he'd been "on the road," and only recently learned Jeffrey Byrne drowned.

Taran cleared his throat before saying through gritted teeth, "There are animals and plants that dwell only in darkness, and an underwater river that almost drowned me when I found it."

Carmen's giggle was drowned by a rumble of thunder.

Multi-colored strobe lights pulsed around the overcrowded, vampire-themed club while electronica drowned out most attempts at conversation.

Drowned out not just by the violent protest but also by the bland platitudes of the world supposed "leaders."

This would have drowned the Anglers Inn that enjoyed a hauntingly atmospheric location right on the lake shore.

Many were drowned and only half of the 400 rescued survived Japanese captivity.

Many civilians were drowned as they tried to escape the carnage by fleeing across the River Slaney.

This increase was attributable to the deaths of 21 migrant workers who drowned while harvesting cockles at Morecambe Bay in February this year.

The oxygen machine drowned out the sound of any whispered conversations.