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Definition: Drowned |
DrownedAdjective1. Dead by drowning; "poor drowned sailors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drowned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Flooded; said of mines underwater. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Attacked, Burst, Drowned. The incorrect past tense forms attackted, bursted, drownded, are sometimes heard; as, "The cashier was attackted by three of the ruffians," "The cannon bursted and killed the gunners,"" The fishermen were drownded off the bar." Use attacked, burst, drowned. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Lower, look downcast, frown, pout; hang down the head; pull a long face, make a long face; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; grin a ghastly smile; look blue, look like a drowned man; lay to heart, take to heart. |
Respect | Phrase: "and pluck up drowned honor by the locks"; "his honor rooted in dishonor stood"; "honor pricks me on". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drowned |
| English words defined with "drowned": Barbarossa ♦ Drent, drown, drown out ♦ Frederick Barbarossa, Frederick I ♦ hero ♦ Icarus ♦ Leander ♦ overwhelm ♦ Scylla, submerge, suspended animation ♦ unintelligible. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drowned": Busiris, But that ♦ Curetes ♦ dewatering, Drown the Miller, Drowned in a Butt of Malmsey, Drowned Rat, Drowning ♦ Hero and Leander, Humber ♦ Life-buoy, Lycidas ♦ Malmsey Wine ♦ Noyades ♦ Onto, Ophelia ♦ partially drowned jet, partially submerged jet, Pied Piper of Hamelin, Psycarpax ♦ QUEER PLUNGERS ♦ Symbols of Saints. (references) |
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Screenplays | My story starts at sea a perilous voyage to an unknown land a shipwreck the wild waters roar and heave the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned all save one a lady whose soul is greater than the ocean and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) The Lord has drowned the wicked and spared the righteous! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) If someone would try to walk on water and drowned, would you blame the Bible? (Quills; writing credit: Doug Wright) Dave Robicheaux drowned in the bottle and went into the swamp to sleep it off. (Heaven's Prisoners; writing credit: Harley Peyton) It was Claude Daigle got drowned, not me! (The Bad Seed; writing credit: Maxwell Anderson; John Lee Mahin) | |
Lyrics | Who cried a river and drowned the whole world! (Absolutely (Story Of A Girl); performing artist: Nine Days) I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead. (JUMPING JACK FLASH; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Steel truck towing building truck after motor drowned Triangulation party of H.C. Warwick. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Drowned forest discovered by wiredrag on Lake Washington Pulling up a moderate size tree Wiredrag party of N. H. Heck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A Northern Gannet, somewhat north of its normal range, tangled in fishing line and drowned. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Mass mortality of young diamondback terrapins. Probably drowned in fish traps. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Vince's Cross at Hut Point Peninsula, McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Named for George Vince, a member of the Scott Discovery Expedition, who drowned nearby. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Shrine to _____ Williams who lost his life during Navy Antarctic operations in the 1950's when his tractor broke through the sea ice and he was drowned. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Cabinet card photograph by J. Williams, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. It was probably taken in 1887-1889, when Captain Schoonmaker commanded USS Vandalia on the Pacific Station. He was drowned when Vandalia was wrecked in the 15-16 March 1889 hurricane at Apia, Samoa. Credit: NAVY. |  | Visiting the grave of Captain Cornelius M. Schoonmaker, USN, soon after the storm. Captain Schoonmaker, Commanding Officer of USS Vandalia, drowned during the hurricane and was buried near Apia, Upolu, Samoa. Those present are (from left to right): Mr. Hart, news correspondent; Mr. J.P. Dunning, Associated Press correspondent, who reported on the storm; Chief Engineer Albert S. Greene, of USS Vandalia; Ensign John H. Gibbons, of USS Vandalia; Lieutenant James W. Carlin, of USS Vandalia; two unidentified men; and Captain Norman H. Farquhar, Commanding Officer of USS Trenton. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Drowned lands of the lower Raquette, Adirondacks / S.R. Stoddard, Glens Falls, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Clark's expedition across the drowned lands. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ann Landers | Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. |
Karl Menninger | The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. |
Thomas Fuller | Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Three Voices | Carroll, Lewis | He a bewildered answer gave, Drowned in the sullen moaning wave, Lost in the echoes of the cave. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then he took a step towards the traveller, who seemed drowned in troublous thought. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | If the young thrusting plant withered in drought or drowned in a flood of rain, it was no more to the driver than to the tractor. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The department has drowned on the American, British, French and Spanish classification systems and also used the expertise from the UN's World Tourism Organization (WTO). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Comoros | There continued to be reports during the year that persons fled Grand Comore and Anjouan for Mayotte; many of these persons reportedly drowned when they attempted to reach Mayotte on rafts or by swimming. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | The other reportedly drowned after he was chased into a river by ZANU-PF supporters. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Those who were killed were shot, drowned, or tortured; 860 persons, including many FPI and RDR militants, reportedly were injured. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | In 1998, four U.S. citizens drowned when a tour boat capsized within the Galapagos Archipelago. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cameroon | Nine children drowned and the others were taken to the town of Edea, near Douala, where various African consulates reportedly were working on their repatriation. (references) |
Togo | According to the Government, in early March, approximately 700 children drowned in two separate incidents, when the boats trafficking them from Nigeria to Gabon capsized. (references) | |
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| "Drowned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 47.72% of the time. "Drowned" is used about 634 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 47.72% | 303 | 16,643 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 37.32% | 237 | 19,467 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.44% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.52% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 634 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "drowned": be drowned ♦ drowned in tears ♦ drowned peat ♦ drowned person ♦ get drowned ♦ like a drowned rat ♦ look like a drowned rat ♦ partially drowned jet ♦ partially drowned weir. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "drowned": half-drowned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "drowned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i mbytur (hollow, muffled, muted, strangulated, suffocated, throttled, wrecked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | удавен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ' (have not, not, to die, to end, to inundate), 淹没 (Deluged, Deluging, Drown, Drowning, Overwhelm, overwhelmed, Overwhelming, submerge, submerged, submerging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | utopený. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | delvis dykket straale (partially drowned jet, partially submerged jet), delvis dykket overloeb (partially drowned weir), oversvoemmet toerv (drowned peat, warped peat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verdronken veen (drowned peat, warped peat), overlaat in gedeeltelijk verdronken toestand (partially drowned weir), gedeeltelijk verdronken straal (partially drowned jet, partially submerged jet), gedeeltelijk ondergedoken straal (partially drowned jet, partially submerged jet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | osittain upotettu suihku (partially drowned jet, partially submerged jet), hukkua (be drowned, be lost, drown, get lost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | noyés, noyées, noyée, noyé (drowned person), noyâmes, noyèrent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ertrank (was drowned), übertönte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παράκτιος κατακλυζομένη τύρφη (drowned peat, warped peat), ημιβυθισμένος εκχειλιστής (partially drowned weir), δέσμη μερικώς βυθισμένη (partially drowned jet, partially submerged jet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טבוע (inherent, sinking, submergence, sunken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fulladt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tercempung, mati tenggelam, kalelep (be submerged, lowered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | annegato (embedded), affogato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 土左衛門 (drowned body of a person), 溺死者 (drowned person), 溺死" (drowned body), 溺れ損なう (to come near being drowned), 溺れる (to be drowned, to indulge in), 濡れ (like a drowned rat, soaked to the skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おぼれそ"なう (to come near being drowned), おぼれる (to be drowned, to indulge in), ぬれねずみ (like a drowned rat, soaked to the skin), どざえも" (drowned body of a person), できしたい (drowned body), できししゃ (drowned person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 익사하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mooghit (extinct, hollow, hollow as voice, jammed, quenched, sunk, suppressed), baiht (deluged, faint, faint of colour, foundered, inundated, invested, soggy, submerged, sunk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owneddray afogado. (various references) înecat. (various references) затопленный (submerged, sunken). (various references) utopljen. (various references) vertedero parcialmente sumergido (partially drowned weir), turba litoral sumergida (drowned peat, warped peat). (various references) drunkna (be drowned, drown, drowned (get)), delvis dränkt stråle (partially drowned jet, partially submerged jet), som en våt katt (like a drowned rat), partiellt dränkt damm (partially drowned weir), oavgjord (be drowned, drawn, open, pending, undecided, unsettled), översvämmad torv (drowned peat, warped peat). (various references) ซึ่งเปียกชุ่ม, ซึ่งจมน้ำตาย. (various references) suda boğulmak (be drowned, drown), sırılsıklam (dripping, head over heels, like a drowned rat, soaking wet, sodden, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, wet through, wringing, wringing wet), iki gözü iki çeşme (drowned in tears), gözyaşlarına boğulmuş (bathed in tears, drowned in tears), boğulmak (be drowned, choke, get drowned, smother, splutter, sputter, stifle, suffocate). (various references) утплений, затоплений (sunk, waterlogged), занурений (immersed, sunk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OV d an skandalish ena twn mikrwn toutwn twn pisteuontwn eiV eme sumferei autw ina kremasqh muloV onikoV epi ton trachlon autou kai katapontisqh en tw pelagei thV qalasshV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui autem scandalizaverit unum de pusillis istis qui in me credunt expedit ei ut suspendatur mola asinaria in collo eius et demergatur in profundum maris |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Betere hym ysþæt an cweornstan syo to hys sweoran ge-cnyt.& sye be-sænced on sæs grund. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But who so sclaundrith oon of these smale, that bileuen in me, it spedith to hym that a mylnstoon `of assis be hangid in his necke, and he be drenchid in the depnesse of the see. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But whosoever offende one of these lytelons which beleve in me: it were better for him that a milstone were hanged aboute his necke and that he were drouned in the depth of the see. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me, to sin, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | apan bisan kinsa nga makaangin aron makasala ang usa niining mga gagmay nga nagasalig kanako, maayo pa lang unta hinoon alang kaniya kon gikahigtan siyag dakung galingan nga bato diha sa iyang liog ug gikalumsan siya sa kahiladman sa dagat. |
| Croatian | "Onomu, naprotiv, tko bi sablaznio jednoga od ovih najmanjih što vjeruju u mene bilo bi bolje da mu se o vrat objesi mlinski kamen pa da potone u dubinu morsku." |
| Danish | Men den, som forarger een af disse små, som tro på mig, ham var det bedre, at der var hængt en Møllesten om hans Hals, og han var sænket i Havets Dyb. |
| Dutch | Maar zo wie een van deze kleinen, die in Mij geloven, ergert, het ware hem nutter, dat een molensteen aan zijn hals gehangen, en dat hij verzonken ware in de diepte der zee. |
| Finnish | Mutta joka viettelee yhden näistä pienistä, jotka uskovat minuun, sen olisi parempi, että myllynkivi ripustettaisiin hänen kaulaansa ja hänet upotettaisiin meren syvyyteen. |
| French | Mais, si quelqu`un scandalisait un de ces petits qui croient en moi, il vaudrait mieux pour lui qu`on suspendît son cou une meule de moulin, et qu`on le jetât au fond de la mer. |
| German | Wer aber ärgert dieser Geringsten einen, die an mich glauben, dem wäre es besser, daß ein Mühlstein an seinen Hals gehängt und er ersäuft werde im Meer, da es am tiefsten ist. |
| Hungarian | A ki pedig megbotránkoztat egyet e kicsinyek közül, a kik én bennem hisznek, jobb annak, hogy malomkövet kössenek a nyakára, és a tenger mélységébe vessék. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Siapa menyebabkan salah satu dari orang-orang yang kecil ini tidak percaya lagi kepada-Ku, lebih baik kalau batu penggilingan diikatkan pada lehernya dan ia ditenggelamkan di laut yang dalam. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi barangsiapa yang mendatangkan kesalahan kepada barang seorang daripada kanak-kanak yang percaya akan Daku ini, maka lebih baik padanya, jikalau sebuah batu kisaran digantungkan pada lehernya, lalu ia ditenggelamkan di tengah-tengah laut. |
| Italian | Chi invece scandalizza anche uno solo di questi piccoli che credono in me, sarebbe meglio per lui che gli fosse appesa al collo una macina girata da asino, e fosse gettato negli abissi del mare. |
| Maori | Tena ko tenei, ka he i tetahi tangata tetahi o enei mea nonohi e whakapono nei ki ahau, nui ke te pai ki a ia me i whakawerewerea ki tona kaki te kohatu mira kaihe, me i pungaia ia ki te rire o te moana. |
| Norwegian | men den som forfører en av disse små som tror på mig, for ham var det bedre at det var hengt en kvernsten om hans hals og han var nedsenket i havets dyp. |
| Portuguese | Mas qualquer que fizer tropeçar um destes pequeninos que creem em mim, melhor lhe fora que se lhe pendurasse ao pescoço uma pedra de moinho, e se submergisse na profundeza do mar. |
| Rumanian | Dar pentru oricine va face sq pqcqtuiascq pe unul din acewti micuyi, cari cred kn Mine, ar fi mai de folos sq i se atkrne de gkt o piatrq mare de moarq, wi sq fie knecat kn adkncul mqrii. |
| Russian | Б ЛФП УП'МБЪОЙФ П"ОПЗП ЙЪ НБМЩИ УЙИ, ЧЕТХАЭЙИ Ч нЕОС, ФПНХ МХЮЫЕ 'ЩМП 'Щ, ЕУМЙ 'Щ ПЧЕУЙМЙ ЕНХ НЕМШОЙЮОЩК ЦЕТОПЧ ОБ ЫЕА Й ПФП ЙМЙ ЕЗП ЧП ЗМХ'ЙОЕ НПТУЛПК. |
| Shuar | `Shuar ju uchin Winia umirtana nuna tunaanum ajuarmatainkia nuna Túratsain niisha kuntujén kayajai jinkiar nayaantsanam ajapen kunanam ajunmaitkiunka maak ainti, Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Y a cualquiera que haga tropezar a uno de estos pequeños que creen en mí, mejor le fuera que se le atase al cuello una gran piedra de molino y que se le hundiese en lo profundo del mar. |
| Swahili | "Yeyote atakayemkosesha mmoja wa hawa wadogo wanaoniamini, ingekuwa afadhali afungwe shingoni jiwe kubwa la kusagia na kuzamishwa kwenye kilindi cha bahari. |
| Swedish | Men den som förför en av dessa små som tro på mig, för honom vore det bättre att en kvarnsten hängdes om hans hals och han sänktes ned i havets djup. |
| Uma | "Aga hema to mpopanawu' hadua ana' to kedi' alaa-na uma-ipi mepangala' hi Aku', bohe mpu'u pehuku' Alata'ala hi tauna tetui. Agina lau-pi hameha' watu po'ahaa' to bohe ratoe hi wuroko' -na pai' -i ratene' hi rala tahi'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Drowned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Downend, Drawne, droaned, drobner, drowe, drowened, drownd, drownded, growned, rowned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drowned" (pronounced drou"nd) |
| 4 | -r ou" n d | aground, browned, crowned, frowned, ground, round. |
| 3 | -ou" n d | abound, around, astound, bound, confound, downed, expound, found, hound, impound, inbound, mound, newfound, pound, profound, propound, rebound, redound, renowned, resound, sound, surround, ultrasound, unbound, unsound, unwound, wound. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: downed, downer, droned, drownd, nodder, wonder, worded. | |
-2 letters: dowed, dower, drone, drown, endow, odder, owned, owner, redon, rewon, rowed, rowen. | |
-3 letters: doer, done, dore, down, drew, eddo, enow, nerd, node, owed, redd, redo, rend, rode, wend, word, wore, worn, wren. | |
-4 letters: den, dew, doe, don, dor, dow, end, eon, ern, new, nod, nor, now. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-n-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: drownded, wondered. | |
+2 letters: decrowned, downgrade, downtrend, eiderdown, reendowed, uncrowded, underwood, windrowed. | |
+3 letters: discrowned, disendower, downgraded, downgrades, downtrends, eiderdowns, underwoods, underworld, wonderland, woodlander. | |
+4 letters: crowdedness, disendowers, downhearted, downtrodden, underworlds, wonderlands, woodlanders, wrongheaded. | |
+5 letters: downwardness, underpowered. | |
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