drown
/dɹaʊn/ verbo B1En español: ahogarse, afogarse, ahogar, afogar
- To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. · When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
- To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. · The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.
- To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. · We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
- To inundate, submerge, overwhelm. · He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
- 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.
He/she/it drowns · Pasado drowned · Participio pasado drowned · Forma en -ing drowning
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.
Having handled the net, he threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and drowned.
The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under the water and drowned him.
A BOY bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned.
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