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as in engulfs
to cover with a flood
whole villages drowned by the rampaging river
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as in soaks
to wet thoroughly with liquid
drowned the carpet with shampoo, and so it took forever to dry
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as in wets
to make wet
cooked pasta drowned in marinara sauce
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Recent Examples of drowns
Baseus Noise-cancelling Headphones These noise-cancelling headphones are a must-have for frequent travelers, delivering adaptive noise reduction that drowns out jet engine roar, crying babies, and chatty seatmates for peaceful flights or train rides.
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Gabriela Garcia, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2025
About once a year, someone drowns.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
On the same day that Ebun’s beloved cousin Monife drowns, Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
The active noise cancelling drowns out chatter, traffic, and every background distraction you’d rather not hear.
—PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
The line in Swift's song and The Life of a Showgirl's cover art appears to be inspired by a Victorian-era painting that depicts the scene in Hamlet when Ophelia goes crazy and falls into a stream and drowns after learning Hamlet killed her father.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
If someone truly disrupts — won’t stop, drowns out others — escort them out and move on.
—Eric Preven, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Otherwise, the urgent always drowns out the important.
—Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Plants will slowly die with yellowing foliage as water builds up in the container and drowns the roots.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
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Long soaks and extreme heat damage wood by swelling and drying it unevenly, making spoons more likely to crack and split.—
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In this model, dark matter isn't a particle at all but rather a quantum field that soaks all of space and time.—
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Sweat that can’t escape wets a jacket’s layer of insulation and accelerates heat loss.—
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But the comedy is absolutely something that wets my beak, I'm drawn to it.—
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The other will take the easy route, churning out generic content that floods the market but doesn’t resonate with customers.—
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Downpours could close some parking areas at the Fashion Valley Mall in Mission Valley, which often floods in heavy rain.—
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This gives your poinsettia a long, deep drink that saturates the roots without drowning them.—
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The result is a geomagnetic storm that amplifies the ionospheric and radio disruptions caused by flares and saturates the radiation belts surrounding Earth to such an extent that new belts can suddenly form.—
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Its funky mysteries flicker in my brain until the perilla sorbet a couple of courses later washes it away.—
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Her animatronic post-World War II body repetitively washes clothes day in and day out, high above the passing cars near the intersection of Vista Avenue and Overland Road.—
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The scent is beautifully soft—a gentle blend of leather, iris, and jasmine that never overwhelms the room.—
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Much of the first half of the novel is given over to claustrophobic atmosphere that overwhelms the wide open country all around them.—
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One of Johnson’s timeliest essays, though, is about Alien, Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror about an extraterrestrial creature that forcibly impregnates a member of a commercial hauling ship, killing him when the alien fetus bursts out of his abdomen.—
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There are no alerts or advisories for boaters across the Atlantic or Florida Keys waters.—
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This could be devastating for Florida, as the Gulf waters off our shores are currently the only part of the Gulf free from the pollution, noise and chaos of offshore drilling.—
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“Drowns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drowns. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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