verb🔗ShareTo die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid."The child was drowning in the swimming pool before the lifeguard jumped in to save him. "bodydisasterphysiologyactionenvironmentnatureoceansufferingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo kill by suffocating in water or another liquid."The lifeguard saved the child who was drowning in the pool. "bodyactiondisasterenvironmentoceanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed."Literal Example: The swimmer was drowning in the deep end of the pool because he didn't know how to swim. Figurative Example: Maria felt like she was drowning in homework after missing a week of school. "disasterweatherenvironmentoceannatureactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo inundate, submerge, overwhelm."The student felt like she was drowning in homework. "disasterenvironmentoceannatureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(usually passive) 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."communicationmedialanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn instance of a person or animal drowning."The lifeguard responded quickly to the drowning in the deep end of the pool. "disasterenvironmentoceansufferingactionnaturehumananimalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
