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What is the verb for drown?

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drown
  1. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
  2. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
  3. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
  5. (transitive, figuratively, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The waves thundered around him, and Andover Lashk did his best not to drown.”
      “Around the country, the great flood would drown dozens of towns and cities.”
      “This is where my thoughts deepen, this bed that I sleep in, where my tears drown the sheets, and my bones weaken.”
drownd
  1. (dialectal, proscribed) drown
  2. Archaic spelling of drowned.
  3. Examples:
    1. “That's 'im that the lady kissed, and that GeV me tuppence and threatened to drownd me.”
      “One of his feete unwares from him did slide, That downe hee fell into the deepe abisse, 545 Where drownd with him is all his earthlie blisse.”
drowned
drowning
drownds
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drownd
drowns
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drown
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If anything, the faster fan drowns out the high-pitched whine with lower-pitched wind noise.”
      “The painting is captioned with a quote from Nichols, explaining that all nationality disappears as a combatant drowns.”
      “And will continue to be so as long as the peal of wedding bells drowns out everything else.”
drowneth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of drown
drownest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of drown
drownded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of drownd
  2. Examples:
    1. “Sure, fiction, made-up, nobody libelled and nobody drownded and nothing to laugh at.”
      “Then everybody who doesn't live on a hill is gonna be drownded.”
      “He said if we could find that corpse we would be celebrated, and more talked about than if we got drownded.”
drownding
  1. present participle of drownd
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