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Meanings of drowned in English

Filled with water from rain or rivers.

Drowned.

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Usage of drowned in English
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Received news today that Marie drowned this morning at Promised Land Lake.
My Life, My Tapes
2
Later, when the current lessened, water filled the sanctuary; the animals drowned.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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The risk is that good ideas are drowned out by party politics.
Reuters
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The disaster happened four days after 13 migrants drowned off eastern Sicily.
Reuters
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The sea level is very high: we hover over drowned continents, probably.'
The Long Earth
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Two rescue workers had also drowned in swollen rivers today, he added.
The Irish Times
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Officials said he drowned near his home in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Reuters
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At least 34 migrants, many of them young children, drowned on Wednesday.
Reuters
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Jack had drowned in a boating accident several years after I left.
The dog said bow-wow
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Officers said it had likely drowned and that its heart had stopped.
BBC
11
No foam was seen, as in the case of the merely drowned.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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As the sea-and I was drowned in them, as in the sea.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
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Last year alone, seven people drowned as the result of a rip.
Radio NZ
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His words, however, were drowned in a torrent of bravos and catcalls.
The new yorker
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The gossipy maundering broke off short; drowned in a wild beast growl.
Further Adventures of Lad
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But such cries at that time were drowned in the general enthusiasm.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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