drowned 1 of 2

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as in flooded

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verb

past tense of drown
1
as in engulfed
to cover with a flood whole villages drowned by the rampaging river

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2
as in soaked
to wet thoroughly with liquid drowned the carpet with shampoo, and so it took forever to dry

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3
as in wet
to make wet cooked pasta drowned in marinara sauce

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Recent Examples of drowned
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Whatever curse words his mouth formed were drowned out by the dull drone of the disappointed Chicago Bulls crowd at the United Center. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2026 That incident came just a day after a 5-year-old girl was pulled into the ocean and drowned in turbulent waters while walking on Treasure Island Beach in Orange County with her mother and brother. — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026 In July 2026, weeks after the docuseries crew left Thailand, Murphy drowned at the age of 32. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2026 Kamal gets a Kafkaesque notice from an Israeli court demanding payment of a large social security debt allegedly owed by his son Wael who decades earlier drowned in the Red Sea, though no official record of the son’s death can be found. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 Nov. 2026 The exact crew number is unclear, but all of them (around 14 sailors) reportedly drowned after veering off-course and wrecking along the coast of southern Wales. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Nov. 2026 According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), investigators determined that the girl had drowned within hours of her body being discovered. — Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2026 Theiss’ wife filed a police complaint alleging that the men were shocked while trying to get out of the pool and drowned, NDTV reported. — Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 31 Oct. 2026 But my objection is drowned out by my Lucid Dream Doula, snapping at me to be thankful for the networking opportunity. — Julie Klausner, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drowned
  1. flooded
  2. engulfed
  3. soaked
  4. wet
  5. submerged
  6. overwhelmed
  7. saturated
  8. washed
Adjective
  • One gas station off Powerline Road became so flooded that customers could not access the pumps.
    — Anna McAllister, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
  • If you are headed to the coast, watch out for flooded roads, especially in low-lying areas.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of flooded
Verb
  • Police released a 911 call reporting a video that appears to show two panicked men engulfed in flames in an alleged hazing incident at an Ohio State University fraternity over the weekend.
    — News Editor, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The company was born from the clean tech trade wars that have engulfed the US, Europe, and China in recent years.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of engulfed
Verb
  • Connecticut woke up to rain and clouds on Friday as showers soaked much of the state.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Both Broward and Palm Beach counties were soaked with several bouts of heavy rain starting Monday.
    — Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of soaked
Verb
  • Some wet their beds, experience chest pains, or cry out at night.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • When the timer dinged, Ernest carried his rats to the sink and wet them gently, one at a time.
    — Madeline ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of wet
Adjective
  • The following day, Hoffman shot an underwater scene that required him to stay submerged in a scuba suit.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Its submerged displacement rises to about 24,000 metric tons.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of submerged
Verb
  • Peru, a nation of 34 million people, is overwhelmed by challenges, among them the looming arrival of nature’s chaotic climatic agent of El Niño, violent crime and income inequality.
    — Luis Andres Henao, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The providers who have stayed have been overwhelmed by vets’ needs — a dynamic that employees say is playing out in VA hospitals across the country.
    — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of overwhelmed
Verb
  • The market has grown saturated with generic rhetoric emphasizing the need for empathy or good communication.
    — Marco Stefanini, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The group Brin helped set up, Building a Better California, funded a deluge of ads featuring firefighters, teachers and Newsom that saturated California’s airwaves and social media feeds this fall.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of saturated
Verb
  • The Democratic wave that flipped control of Congress from Republicans on Election Day also washed through to the state and local level, with several legislatures seeing historic changes in their balance of power.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The intense erosion that carved the Great Unconformity washed rock material into the oceans, possibly fertilizing them just before the Cambrian explosion, when calcium became abundant in seawater.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of washed

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“Drowned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drowned. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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