drowning
Meaning of drowning
verb
- To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.
- An instance of a person or animal drowning.
It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.
Information about drowning
- The plural form of drowning is: drownings.
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Hyphenation of drowning
drown-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- drowning is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
drowning synonyms
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Translation of drowning
- French: noyade
- Italian: affogamento
- Portuguese: afogamento
- Spanish: ahogamiento
Anagrams of drowning
Words that rhyme with drowning
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