drown

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vi. 淹死 vt. 把...淹死, 淹没

发音

US /dɹaʊn/
其它 /dɹuːn/

词形变化

drown'd drownded drowned drownest drowneth drowning drowns 三单 drowns drowning 现在分词 drowned 过去式 drowned 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

淹没；把…淹死

to die from being under water for too long, or to kill someone in this way

动词

淹死；溺死

Many people drowned when the boat overturned.

船翻后许多人淹死了。

Jane was drowned in the river.

简在那条河里溺水身亡。

释义与例句

v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

    溺水

    淹死

    溺死

    浸死

    不及物

    When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.

  2. 2.

    To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

    把...淹死

    及物

    The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.

  3. 3.

    To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

    不及物

    We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.

  4. 4.

    To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

    比喻 及物

    He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.

  5. 5.

    To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

    比喻 及物

    The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 3

swim overwhelm submerge

上位词 10

be go kill die pass cover exist exit eliminate choke

参见 1

drown out

相关短语

drown out 淹没, 压过 drown one's sorrows 借酒浇愁 drown the miller surround and drown

词源

From Middle English drownen, drounen, drunen (“to drown”), of obscure and uncertain origin. The OED suggests an unattested Old English form *drūnian. Harper 2001 points to Old English druncnian, ġedruncnian (> Middle English drunknen, dronknen (“to drown”)), "probably influenced" by Old Norse drukkna (cf. Icelandic drukkna, Danish drukne (“to drown”)). Funk & Wagnall's has 'of uncertain origin'. It has been theorised (see e.g. ODS) that it may represent a direct loan of Old Norse drukkna, but this is described by the OED as being "on phonetic and other grounds [...] highly improbable", unless one considers the possibility of an unattested variant in Old Norse *drunkna.

来源：wiktionary