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as in engulfed
to cover with a flood
whole villages drowned by the rampaging river
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as in soaked
to wet thoroughly with liquid
drowned the carpet with shampoo, and so it took forever to dry
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as in wet
to make wet
cooked pasta drowned in marinara sauce
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Recent Examples of drowned
Kansas City Public Library Staff,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
Anne Arundel County fire officials are urging families to review pool safety after two young children drowned in separate residential pools last weekend.
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Caroline Foreback,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Laurent Nuñez, France's interior minister, said on Saturday, June 27, that over 70 people have drowned since June 18, reported The New York Times.
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David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
Kamal, a 60-year-old Palestinian man, is ordered by an Israeli court in Jerusalem to pay a large social security debt on behalf of his son Wael, who drowned in the Red Sea over 20 years ago, or so Kamal was told.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
29 June 2026
Yesterday evening, two more people drowned while trying to cool off, including a six-year-old child, bringing the number of drowning victims to at least 42 across France since June 18, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
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Taylor Ward,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
There, deputies discovered that Bland had drowned her daughter Emii in a bathtub, according to an arrest report.
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Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
At least 40 people in France have drowned in recent days while trying to escape a blistering heat wave that has gripped much of Europe.
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Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
23 June 2026
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In the Stockyards, more than 5,000 head of livestock had drowned.
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Kansas City Public Library Staff,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
Anne Arundel County fire officials are urging families to review pool safety after two young children drowned in separate residential pools last weekend.
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Caroline Foreback,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Laurent Nuñez, France's interior minister, said on Saturday, June 27, that over 70 people have drowned since June 18, reported The New York Times.
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David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
Kamal, a 60-year-old Palestinian man, is ordered by an Israeli court in Jerusalem to pay a large social security debt on behalf of his son Wael, who drowned in the Red Sea over 20 years ago, or so Kamal was told.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
29 June 2026
Yesterday evening, two more people drowned while trying to cool off, including a six-year-old child, bringing the number of drowning victims to at least 42 across France since June 18, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
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Taylor Ward,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
There, deputies discovered that Bland had drowned her daughter Emii in a bathtub, according to an arrest report.
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Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
At least 40 people in France have drowned in recent days while trying to escape a blistering heat wave that has gripped much of Europe.
—
Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drowned
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When coming to a flooded road, turn around and head back.
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In Hardin County, a juvenile died after a car overturned in a flooded creek, WAVE 3 News reported.
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With no energy available to warm the planet to these temperatures, the team reasoned that the temperature must be a residual effect of prior warming either from being engulfed by the red giant or during an inward migration.
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Polls show Democrats are the favorites to retake Congress heading into November, but the party is engulfed at the moment by a fierce debate about its ideologicl direction.
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He was covered from neck to boots in fabrics soaked with permethrin—a pesticide modelled on the toxic pyrethrin found in chrysanthemum flowers.
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Today, the England and Panama flags looked completely soaked by the time they were rolled up again.
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The father, Marquise Anderson, said Joanna wet the bed on two occasions on a night in February at the house in the 1900 block of Daniel Street.
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Considerations Before Getting Started Before cleaning your sidewalks, gather some basic safety equipment such as gloves and eye protection, and protect plants and grass bordering your sidewalk from bleach and cleaners by wetting them down and covering them with plastic sheeting or old towels.
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The driver was found deceased inside her submerged vehicle hours after calling 911 for help.
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This seemingly futuristic idea drew on his Navy experience with water-splitting electrolyzers, which supplied the oxygen that enabled subs to remain submerged for months at a time, and NASA’s use of hydrogen fuel cells to power the Apollo missions.
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But the ownership group is overwhelmed by left-wing politics.
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Tipu’s kingdom finally fell in 1799, when British and allied forces overwhelmed his fortress at Seringapatam, a few hours’ drive from present-day Bangalore.
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Ali Javaheri, senior emerging-technology research analyst at PitchBook, says that categories like battlefield AI and drones are looking especially saturated.
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Over the last decade, the technology market has become saturated with standalone applications designed to solve specific problems.
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Thousands of dead Cassin's auklets washed onto beaches across the Pacific Northwest during the same period, another indication that warming ocean conditions had rippled through the ecosystem.
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These alternatives may also be a better solution for some items that can't be washed with liquid fabric softener.
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“Drowned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drowned. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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