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Drown Out

Definition: Drown Out

Drown Out

Verb

1. 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.
 


Modern Usage: Drown Out

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Sounds drown out the screams (Turn On Some Music; performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drown Out

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

   

Swedish

  

överrösta (cry down). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sesle bastırmak, sesini bastırmak (shout smb. down). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Drown Out

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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