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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drown.

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Examples

  • Down in this shady corner, while the other couples are quite at the other end, he raises the sweet face, tranced in the beguiling melody of movement, and kisses the lips with all a man's passionate fervor, holds her in such a clasp that she struggles and throws out one hand wildly, as if suddenly stricken blind, and a frightened expression drowns the sweet delight.

    Floyd Grandon's Honor Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • RAZ: So when the wind ends - the wind comes, it parts the water, the Israelites go across - and then when the wind ends, does your simulation show that the water just comes back, you know, rushes back in, you know, as it did in the Bible and kind of drowns the pharaoh's army?

    Study: Wind May Have Helped Moses Part Red Sea 2010

  • "It's hard because when you do something handmade like that, it kind of drowns on that site."

    Beyond Fair Trade 2008

  • S. O'BRIEN: Or is it a bad thing, because it kind of drowns you out a little bit as well?

    CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2006 2006

  • Best man 'drowns' in lake at wedding reception after skinny dipping

    Home 2010

  • Best man 'drowns' in lake at wedding reception after skinny dipping

    Home 2010

  • Best man 'drowns' in lake at wedding reception after skinny dipping

    Home 2010

  • Best man 'drowns' in lake at wedding reception after skinny dipping

    Home 2010

  • Best man 'drowns' in lake at wedding reception after skinny dipping

    Home 2010

  • Best man 'drowns' in lake at wedding reception after skinny dipping

    Home 2010

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