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Definition: Drown Out |
Drown OutVerb1. Make imperceptible; "The noise from the ice machine drowned out the music". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Sounds drown out the screams (Turn On Some Music; performing artist: Marvin Gaye) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "drown out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκεπάζω (ήχο). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elnyom (ground, oppress, overwhelm, quell, quench, repress, ride, throttle, to bully, to coerce, to drown out, to grain down, to grain sg under one's heel, to grind, to hold down, to inhibit, to keep down, to keep under, to mask, to overwhelm, to put down, to quash, to repress, to stifle, to suppress, to tread down, to victimize, trample), elfojt (Burke, close down, damp, deafen, extinguish, quench, repress, smother, suppress, to bottle, to bottle up, to check, to curb, to damp, to deaden, to drown out, to inhibit, to mask, to put down, to quash, to quell, to repress, to silence, to smother, to stifle, to strangle, to strangulate, to subdue, to suppress, to tame, to throttle down, to wad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owndray outay överrösta (cry down). (various references) sesle bastırmak, sesini bastırmak (shout smb. down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-n-o-o-r-t-u-w" | |
-1 letter: nutwood, orotund, outworn. | |
-2 letters: outrow, rotund, unroot, untrod. | |
-3 letters: donor, donut, drown, odour, outdo, rondo, round, tondo, wound. | |
-4 letters: door, dour, down, dunt, durn, duro, nowt, nurd, odor, onto, ordo, rood, root, roto, rout, runt, toon, torn, toro, tour, town, trod, trow, turd, turn, undo, unto, wont, wood, word, worn, wort. | |
-5 letters: don, dor, dot. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-n-o-o-r-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: downcourt. | |
+2 letters: outfrowned. | |
+4 letters: counterworld, southernwood. | |
+5 letters: counterworlds, southernwoods. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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