Definición de "drown"
Formas de la palabra: 3rd person singular present tense drowns
, present participle drowning
, past tense, past participle drowned
1. verbo
When someone drowns or is drowned, they die because they have gone or been pushed under water and cannot breathe.
[Also VERB noun]2. verbo
If you say that a person or thing is drowning in something, you are emphasizing that they have a very large amount of it, or are completely covered in it.
[emphasis]
3. verbo
If something drowns a sound, it is so loud that you cannot hear that sound properly.
4.
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drown in British English
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Formas derivadas
drowner (ˈdrowner) sustantivo
Origen de la palabra drown
C13: probably from Old English druncnian; related to Old Norse drukna to be drowned
Frecuencia de uso de la palabra
drown in American English
verbo intransitivo
1.
to die by suffocation in water or other liquid
verbo transitivo
2.
to kill by suffocation in water or other liquid
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Origen de la palabra drown
ME drounen, prob. < var. of ON drukna, drown, akin to OE druncnian, to become drunk, be drowned < druncen, pp. of drincan, drinkFrecuencia de uso de la palabra
drown in American English
(draun)
verbo intransitivo
1.
to die under water or other liquid of suffocation
verbo transitivo
SYNONYMS 4. deluge, engulf, submerge, drench, soak.2.
to kill by submerging under water or other liquid
3.
to destroy or get rid of by, or as if by, immersion
He drowned his sorrows in drink
4.
to flood or inundate
5. (often fol. by out)
to overwhelm so as to render inaudible, as by a louder sound
8. See drown in
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drowner sustantivo
Origen de la palabra drown
[1250–1300; ME drounnen, OE druncnian, perh. by loss of c between nasals and shift of length from nn to ou]Más modismos que contienen
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Inglés británico: 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.
- Inglés americano: drown /ˈdraʊn/
- Árabe: يَغْرَقُ
- Portugués brasileño: afogar
- Chino: 溺水
- Croata: utopiti se
- Checo: utopit (se)
- Danés: drukne
- Holandés: verdrinken
- Español europeo: ahogar
- Finlandés: hukkua
- Francés: se noyer
- Alemán: ertrinken
- Griego: πνίγω
- Italiano: affogare
- Japonés: 溺死する
- Coreano: 익사하다
- Noruego: drukne
- Polaco: utopić się
- Portugués: afogar
- Rumano: a îneca
- Ruso: тонуть
- Español: ahogar
- Sueco: drunkna
- Tailandés: จมน้ำ
- Turco: suda boğulmak
- Ucraniano: тонути
- Vietnamita: chết đuối
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