drowning
/ˈdɹaʊnɪŋ/ noun B1- An instance of a person or animal drowning. · It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.
- An instance of a person or animal being drowned.
Plural drownings
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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.
Morrel, to aid Dantès, he had shut himself up with two bottles of black currant brandy, in the hope of drowning reflection.
He rose again to the surface, struggled with the last desperate effort of a drowning man, uttered a third cry, and felt himself sinking, as if the fatal cannon shot were again tied to his feet.
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