Drowning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DROWNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• die through submersion in and inhalation of water
• deliberately kill (a person or animal) by drowning
• submerge or flood (an area)
• (of a sound) make (another sound) inaudible by being much louder
• be overwhelmed by a large amount of something
• cover or immerse food in
NOUN:
• an instance of someone drowning
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to suffocate in water

Words related to DROWNING

drown9 drowned12 drowns10

Words that contain DROWNING

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How to use DROWNING in a sentence

• They would not give me a bone to bring me back, or to keep me from drowning myself.
• It seemed to mock at their trivial disputes, and seek to settle them by drowning the sound of them.
• As soon as he had given up the idea of drowning himself, he thought only of letting his dear Julie know that he lived solely for her.
• Surely, surely, that must be true! It would come, that flash, like lightning, or the unwilling memories of the drowning.
• I attempted to avoid my own shadow, tripped, fell over it, and like a drowning man struggling for shore crawled back on hands and knees to the wall.
• To pause for a moment, to vary by ever so little from the course of the storm, might mean the drowning of them all.
• Glansdale, the English leader, who had grossly insulted Joan but a few days before, was among those who were drowning in the Loire.
• In 1626 he founded a mission there, and when his provincialate was ended he returned to Formosa, where he died by accidental drowning, August 1, 1629.
• More and more he flooded her inmost being, drowning the old landmarks, like the sea at high tide.
• It is a revelation to see an expert player handle a drowning person, and more especially a frantic one.
• On page 349 were pictures of scouts rescuing drowning persons.
• She loved him, she desired him, then nothing was too small to cling to with the wild hope of the drowning.
• His sad death, by drowning, in the wreck of the steamer Orion, in 1850, will be well remembered.
• The Kalevide had lost his senses like the rest, and told the whole story of his adventure on the island and the drowning of the maiden.
• It had been the scene, a few years before, of the tragic drowning of a man they knew.
• When the epistle is finished, off she runs to the nearest well and saves her honor by drowning.
• It is a race between the endurance of frightened, chilled, drowning people, and the stupid lack of presence of mind of those on shore.
• The excitement was as keen as that of watching a drowning man attempt to reach the shore.
• Fortunately, no other loss followed than that occasioned by the drowning of one very fine female goat, the property of Baker the superintendant.
• Raoul at the same time seized one of the young man’s hands and placed it on the mane, which it grasped with the tenacity of a drowning man.
• The Whigs were ravished to see me, and would lay hold on me as a twig while they are drowning, and the great men making me their clumsy apologies, etc.
• In the escape from drowning Mathias showed little interest, but he was curious to hear the doctrine that had given so much offence.
• More and more Charley turned to his wireless as a drowning man clutches at a straw.
• All ideas he may ever have had on the subject melt away and like a drowning man he clutches furiously at the nearest solid object.
• Beside, there is a drowning thought that he has gone out to die before the rest.
• Suddenly, drowning all lesser noise, came the blows of a heavy timber beating on the main door of the villa.
• He was in the attitude of a drowning man catching at a straw.

Similar words containing DROWN without suffix ing

drown9 drownd11 drowns10 drownds12 drowned12 drowner11 drownded14 drowners12 drownding15 drownings14 undrowned14

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