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drown

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Source Word

drown

IPA(Pronunciation)

/dɹaʊn/

Verb

intransitive transitive figuratively passive usually

Japanese Meaning

（自動詞）水や他の液体に浸かって窒息し死ぬこと / （他動詞）水や他の液体によって窒息させ、死に至らせること

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The child can drown in just a few inches of water if left unattended.

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目を離すと、子供はわずか数センチの水でも溺れて死ぬことがある。

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Sense（1）

(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

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Sense（3）

We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.

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Sense（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.

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Sense（5）

(transitive, figuratively, 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.

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drowns

（ present singular third-person ）

drowning

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drowned

（ participle past ）

drowned

（ past ）

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