Meaning of "drown" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DROWN

Probably from Old English druncnian; related to Old Norse drukna to be drowned.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DROWN

drown  [draʊn]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DROWN

Drown is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb drown in English.

WHAT DOES DROWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drowning

Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid. It is further classified as by outcome into: death, ongoing health problems and no ongoing health problems. Using the term near drowning to refer to those who survive is no longer recommended. It occurs more frequently in males and the young. Drowning itself is quick and silent, although it may be preceded by distress which is more visible. A person drowning is unable to shout or call for help, or seek attention, as they cannot obtain enough air. The instinctive drowning response is the final set of autonomic reactions in the 20 – 60 seconds before sinking underwater, and to the untrained eye can look similar to calm safe behavior. Lifeguards and other persons trained in rescue learn to recognize drowning people by watching for these instinctive movements. Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury or death worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury related deaths, with 96% of these deaths occurring in low-income and middle-income countries. In many countries, drowning is one of the leading causes of death for children under 12 years old.

Definition of drown in the English dictionary

The first definition of drown in the dictionary is to die or kill by immersion in liquid. Other definition of drown is to destroy or get rid of as if by submerging. Drown is also to drench thoroughly; inundate; flood.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DROWN

PRESENT

Present

I drown

you drown

he/she/it drowns

we drown

you drown

they drown

Present continuous

I am drowning

you are drowning

he/she/it is drowning

we are drowning

you are drowning

they are drowning

Present perfect

I have drowned

you have drowned

he/she/it has drowned

we have drowned

you have drowned

they have drowned

Present perfect continuous

I have been drowning

you have been drowning

he/she/it has been drowning

we have been drowning

you have been drowning

they have been drowning

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I drowned

you drowned

he/she/it drowned

we drowned

you drowned

they drowned

Past continuous

I was drowning

you were drowning

he/she/it was drowning

we were drowning

you were drowning

they were drowning

Past perfect

I had drowned

you had drowned

he/she/it had drowned

we had drowned

you had drowned

they had drowned

Past perfect continuous

I had been drowning

you had been drowning

he/she/it had been drowning

we had been drowning

you had been drowning

they had been drowning

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will drown

you will drown

he/she/it will drown

we will drown

you will drown

they will drown

Future continuous

I will be drowning

you will be drowning

he/she/it will be drowning

we will be drowning

you will be drowning

they will be drowning

Future perfect

I will have drowned

you will have drowned

he/she/it will have drowned

we will have drowned

you will have drowned

they will have drowned

Future perfect continuous

I will have been drowning

you will have been drowning

he/she/it will have been drowning

we will have been drowning

you will have been drowning

they will have been drowning

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would drown

you would drown

he/she/it would drown

we would drown

you would drown

they would drown

Conditional continuous

I would be drowning

you would be drowning

he/she/it would be drowning

we would be drowning

you would be drowning

they would be drowning

Conditional perfect

I would have drown

you would have drown

he/she/it would have drown

we would have drown

you would have drown

they would have drown

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been drowning

you would have been drowning

he/she/it would have been drowning

we would have been drowning

you would have been drowning

they would have been drowning

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you drown
we let´s drown
you drown

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to drown

Past participle

drowned

Present Participle

drowning

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «DROWN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drown» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of drown

deluge · drench · engulf · flood · go down · go under · immerse · inundate · obliterate · overcome · overpower · overwhelm · saturate · soak · steep · submerge · swamp · wipe out

TRANSLATION OF DROWN

Find out the translation of drown to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of drown from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drown» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 溺水
• Translator English - Spanish: ahogar
• English: drown
• Translator English - Hindi: डूब
• Translator English - Arabic: يَغْرَقُ
• Translator English - Russian: тонуть
• Translator English - Portuguese: afogar
• Translator English - Bengali: মজান
• Translator English - French: se noyer
• Translator English - Malay: lemas
• Translator English - German: ertrinken
• Translator English - Japanese: 溺死する
• Translator English - Korean: 익사하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Drown
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chết đuối
• Translator English - Tamil: மூழ்க
• Translator English - Marathi: बुडणे
• Translator English - Turkish: boğmak
• Translator English - Italian: affogare
• Translator English - Polish: utopić się
• Translator English - Ukrainian: тонути
• Translator English - Romanian: a îneca
• Translator English - Greek: πνίγω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: verdrink
• Translator English - Swedish: drunkna
• Translator English - Norwegian: drukne

10 QUOTES WITH «DROWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drown.

1

Phil Anselmo

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

2

John Barrymore

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

3

Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

4

Jimmy Carter

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

5

P. C. Cast

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

6

James Chanos

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

7

Paulo Coelho

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

8

Edwin Louis Cole

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

9

Bill Dedman

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

10

Maximillian Degenerez

I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DROWN»

Discover the use of drown in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drown and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Drown

Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim.

Junot Diaz, 2009

Drown Radio-Vision and Homo-Vibra Ray Instruments and Their Use

Contents: the Drown Radio Therapy Methods; Patents Specifications (Radio-Vision inst.); the Voice-Print As Specimen for Analysis; Bio-Vibronic Analysis Case Record Chart; Diagnosing with Atomic Rates; Activity Centers in Base of Brain; ...

Ruth B. Drown, 1998

I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women

Poetry. Fiction. Women's Studies. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place, the book includes work by 64 women from 10 countries. Contributors respond to the question: What is conceptual writing?

Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, 2012

As Bees in Honey Drown

A serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story in a modern idiom--quite close, in its way, to the original.

Douglas Carter Beane, 1998

Drown

Having spent 10 years on the verge of rock superstardom, Billy Sunday is starting to mentally and physically feel the negative effects of his nomadic, party-infused life.

Albie Cullen, 2010

Technique of the Drown H. V. R. & Radio-Vision Instruments

1923 the Love Story of Tutankhamen.

Ruth B. Drown, 1994

If You Don't Make Waves, You'll Drown: 10 Hard-Charging ...

This is not your typical business book.

Dave Anderson, 2005

He Drown She in the Sea

They have a life-affirming affair and Rose dares to reroute their destinies. This is a haunting, sensuous, and suspenseful story about love against all odds, and the sacrifice and euphoria that come with defying the life one is born into.

Shani Mootoo, 2007

A Woman Named Drown: A Novel

Richly influenced by offbeat literary giant Donald Barthelme, Padgett Powell’s A Woman Named Drown offers readers a smorgasbord of literary strangeness—a surreal series of adventures in which nothing much—and yet everything—happens ...

Padgett Powell, 2013

You Will Drown in Love 3

The boys love title spin-off from the successful You Will Fall in Love one-shot continues! Business relationships become tangled with personal interests as ambitious Jinnai and sensitive Reiichiro fumble their way towards love.

Hinako Takanaga, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DROWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drown is used in the context of the following news items.

Terrifying RNLI advert shows what it's like to drown in 15-rated …

This terrifying 15-rated advert released by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution shows what it's like to drown. Two clips have been shared on ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

4 Drown in Canoeing Accident at Family Gathering in Texas

Authorities say four people have drowned in a canoeing accident while attending a family gathering at a resort in East Texas. Texas Parks and ... «ABC News, Jul 15»

Four Houstonians drown in lake near Crockett

HOUSTON COUNTY, Texas -- Four people from Houston drowned in a lake near Crockett over the weekend. The victims were in a canoe on ... «KHOU, Jul 15»

Conservative voice drown out on UW-Madison campus

MADISON, Wisconsin — When administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison held their sky-is-falling hearings earlier this year on ... «Watchdog.org, Jul 15»

Six places to drown your sandwich

Six places to drown your sandwich ... Six places to drown your sandwich What does everybody have ... Six places to drown your sandwich. «azcentral.com, Jul 15»

Manor Man, Father Accidentally Drown on Southeast Texas Fishing …

PORT ARTHUR, Texas - Police say the bodies of a father and son have been recovered after both accidentally drowned during a Southeast ... «TWC News, Jul 15»

3 girls, aged 4 to 7, drown in central Vietnam pond

Three little girls aged 4 to 7 drowned on Tuesday afternoon after falling into a small pond in the central province of Nghe An. The sisters and ... «Thanh Nien Daily, Jul 15»

'Turn around, don't drown' Take these steps to survive a flood

(July 8, 2015) – After record high rainfall totals yesterday and more rain today, the Indianapolis Fire Department is urging residents to take early ... «WTTV CBS4Indy, Jul 15»

Man Arrested On Drug Charges After Two Teens Drown

(WARSAW) -A northern Indiana sheriff says a man has been arrested on a drug charge in connection with the accidental drowning deaths of ... «WBIW.com, Jul 15»

Crank up some tunes to drown out screaming symphonies

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