drown

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She had seen Pharaoh drown, and the fright had caused the bald spot on her head.

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  1. transitive verb To kill by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid.
  2. transitive verb To drench thoroughly or cover with or as if with a liquid.
  3. transitive verb To deaden one's awareness of; blot out: people who drowned their troubles in drink.
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  • Robert Williams recognised the woman as Michael Tyler's daughter ... and the man with her was one of the men who'd left her father to drown, as were the other three men who've died here in the past two months. —  EQMM, May 2005
  • It will never do to let the fowls drown, and to take no steps to prevent a recurrence of any such disaster. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
  • After that I was grabbed by all four of my legs and soused into the water until I thought I should drown, and rubbed until my fur nearly came off I wished then that I had asked the Fairy to leave her address so that I could send for her and have her come back and let me be a boy again. —  Andiron Tales
  • Yet see that he does not drown--your heads upon it! —  Under the Rose
  • He ain't be'n seen sence that night back in Wolf River He didn't drown--and he's--somewhere--after Purdy--" the voice trailed off into silence and at the bedside Jennie waited until the regular breathing told her that the girl had sunk into the deep sleep of utter exhaustion. —  Prairie Flowers
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  1. Middle English drounen, probably of Scandinavian origin; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also drawn; from Middle English drownen, drounen, contr. of earlier druncnen, druncnien, from Old Northumbrian druncnia (= Icelandic drukna = Swedish drunkna = Danish drukue, intransitive, drown, sink, = Anglo-Saxon druncnian = Old High German trunkanēn, drunkanēn, become drunk, be drunk), from Anglo-Saxon druncen, past participle of drincan, drink: see drink. Cf. drench, drown, and drouk, of same ult. origin.
 

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