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{
"term": "drown",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "drown",
"heSheIt": "drowns"
},
"pastSimple": "drowned",
"pastParticiple": "drowned",
"ingForm": "drowning"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to die because you have been underwater too long and you cannot breathe; to kill somebody by holding them underwater",
"sensetop": "drown somebody/something/yourselfbe drowned",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Two children drowned after falling into the river."
},
{
"text": "He had attempted to rescue the drowning man."
},
{
"text": "She tried to drown herself.",
"contextForm": "drown somebody/something/yourself"
},
{
"text": "They had drowned the unwanted kittens."
},
{
"text": "He was drowned at sea.",
"contextForm": "be drowned"
},
{
"text": "The ship's captain refused to leave them to drown."
},
{
"text": "They were commended for saving a four-year-old from drowning."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make something very wet; to completely cover something in water or another liquid",
"sensetop": "drown something (in something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The fruit was drowned in cream."
}
],
"synonyms": "drench"
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to be louder than other sounds so that you cannot hear them",
"sensetop": "drown somebody/something (out)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She turned up the radio to drown out the noise from next door."
},
{
"text": "His words were drowned out by jeers and whistling."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to have so much of something that you cannot deal with it",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We're drowning in applications so please don't write in."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to get drunk in order to forget your problems",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/draʊn/",
"audio": "dr/drown/drown__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/draʊnz/",
"audio": "dr/drown/drowns__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/draʊnd/",
"audio": "dr/drown/drowned__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdraʊnɪŋ/",
"audio": "dr/drown/drowning__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/draʊn/",
"audio": "dr/drown/drown__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/draʊnz/",
"audio": "dr/drown/drowns__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/draʊnd/",
"audio": "dr/drown/drowned__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈdraʊnɪŋ/",
"audio": "dr/drown/drowning__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (originally northern): related to Old Norse drukkna ‘to be drowned’, also to drink."
}