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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
drown .
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Examples
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But truth is contrary, and that time is like a river which carrieth down things which are light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is sad and weighty.
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He is the foe of all others; he is a power irresistible; the storm-wave that drowneth, the glitter of ice is that well-favoured man.
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Finally, such as having walls and banks near unto the sea, and do suffer the same to decay (after convenient admonition), whereby the water entereth and drowneth up the country, are by a certain ancient custom apprehended, condemned, and staked in the breach, where they remain for ever as parcel of the foundation of the new wall that is to be made upon them, as I have heard reported.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Finally, such as having walls and banks near unto the sea, and do suffer the same to decay (after convenient admonition), whereby the water entereth and drowneth up the country, are by a certain ancient custom apprehended, condemned, and staked in the breach, where they remain for ever as parcel of the foundation of the new wall that is to be made upon them, as I have heard reported.
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For he throweth as much water out of his mouth upon the ship, that he overturneth it sometime or drowneth it.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Christ's adepts, God-flowing river of understanding that drowneth the notions of the lawless and blasphemers, O God-bearing, all-laudable, wise
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The drops of your tears have quenched the fire of sin and have shewn unto us all a whole stream of miracles that drowneth all sufferings of those who have recourse unto you, O most glorious fathers.
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Pronunciation of our Forefathers were drowneth, walketh, arriveth.
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Syllable, as in _drowns, walks, arrives_, and innumerable other Words, which in the Pronunciation of our Forefathers were _drowneth, walketh, arriveth_.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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I have reached but a span of that boundless perfection of holiness; it is but a grain weight of the eternal weight of grace, and I must forget it, and stand before God, as if I had lost mind of duties, appear in his presence as if I had attained nothing; for the length that is before my hand drowneth up all attainments.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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