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DROWN

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drown verb A. tranzitiv

1. a îneca (animale etc.).

2. (fig.) a acoperi, a înăbuşi (glasul, sunetul);

the noise drowns the voice gălăgia acoperă vocea.

3. (tehn.) a strica (o sculă etc.) din cauza apei.

4. a inunda.

5. to drown out a goni din cauza inundaţiei.

drown verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se îneca.

2. a se inunda.

3. (fig.) a se cufunda; a pieri.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

You can drown in as little as an inch or two of water.

(Drowning, NIH)

Know that when I was yet a boy I journeyed alone down to the place where the Yukon drowns itself in the Great Fog Sea. Even to Pastolik I journeyed, and even beyond, into the north, along the rim of the sea.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

But I could not help fancying, now, that it moaned of those who were gone; and instead of thinking that the sea might rise in the night and float the boat away, I thought of the sea that had risen, since I last heard those sounds, and drowned my happy home.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then I had a vague memory of something long and dark with red eyes, just as we saw in the sunset, and something very sweet and very bitter all around me at once; and then I seemed sinking into deep green water, and there was a singing in my ears, as I have heard there is to drowning men; and then everything seemed passing away from me; my soul seemed to go out from my body and float about the air.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

People drown when they get too much water in their lungs.

(Drowning, NIH)

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