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- verb Present participle of
drown . - noun An instance of a person or animal drowning.
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Examples
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Britain's new Conservative-Liberal-Dem coalition of David Cameron and Nick Clegg vow to slash the monstrous deficit it inherited from the former Blair-Brown Labour government that left Britain drowning in red ink.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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I mean, people say that drowning is an easy death.
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The more commonly current medical definition of drowning is as I gave it.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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Britain's new Conservative-Liberal-Dem coalition of David Cameron and Nick Clegg vow to slash the monstrous deficit it inherited from the former Blair-Brown Labour government that left Britain drowning in red ink.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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Medically, drowning is not being able to breathe because of liquid impairment.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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Medically, drowning is not being able to breathe because of liquid impairment.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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Simiulated drowning is not drowning, which would be unnacceptable.
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Simiulated drowning is not drowning, which would be unnacceptable.
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Even then higher education was part of the doling government economy, as opposed to the real private enterprise economy, though the analogy I'm going to draw here clearly demonstrates that the doling government economy is a tide that just keeps coming in drowning all in debt.
Technocrats and Populists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Britain's new Conservative-Liberal-Dem coalition of David Cameron and Nick Clegg vow to slash the monstrous deficit it inherited from the former Blair-Brown Labour government that left Britain drowning in red ink.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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