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drowned

/dɹaʊnd/ adjective B1
  1. That has died by drowning. · a drowned rat
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“I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 12 · B2
He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done.
The Jungle Book, p. 66 · B2
Andrews hadn’t caught her by her sash just in the nick of time she’d fallen in and prob’ly been drowned.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 104 · C1
It would have been such a romantic experience to have been nearly drowned.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 104 · C1

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