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If they were submerged for longer, the plants might have drowned, Armitage notes.
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One can imagine the captain of the Titanic insisting on pointing out that 900 people didn’t drown.
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Any student of modern math must know what it feels like to drown in a well of telescoping terminology.
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Nala is Ophelia, Simba’s love, though thankfully she doesn’t go mad from being ignored by him and drown.
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It could be how I so clearly remember the night I almost drowned.
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Like past instances, the campaign started in a chaotic manner with Emperor Barbarossa losing his life by drowning while crossing the Saleph River.
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A third drinks neither for the good of the Body or the Mind, but to stupify and drown both.
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The young gentlemen hauled the poor sheep into the boat, for it would not have done to let it drown after having saved the child.
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That they should leave her to drown, while they themselves fled to comparative safety in a boat, was more than he could believe.
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If I'd said, 'Come along, I'm goin' to drown ye,' she'd 'a' come just the same.
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WORDS RELATED TO DROWN
- KO
- abate
- alleviate
- anesthetize
- benumb
- blunt
- check
- chloroform
- consume
- cushion
- damp
- dampen
- depress
- deprive
- desensitize
- destroy
- devitalize
- dim
- dope
- drown
- dull
- etherize
- exhaust
- freeze
- frustrate
- gas
- hush
- impair
- incapacitate
- injure
- knock out
- lay out
- lessen
- mute
- numb
- paralyze
- put out of order
- put to sleep
- quieten
- reduce
- repress
- retard
- slow
- smother
- soften
- stifle
- stun
- stupefy
- suppress
- tire
- tone down
- unnerve
- weaken
- KO
- abate
- alleviate
- anesthetize
- benumb
- blunt
- check
- chloroform
- consume
- cushion
- damp
- dampen
- depress
- deprive
- desensitize
- destroy
- devitalize
- dim
- dope
- drown
- dull
- etherize
- exhaust
- freeze
- frustrate
- gas
- hush
- impair
- incapacitate
- injure
- knock out
- lay out
- lessen
- mute
- numb
- paralyze
- put out of order
- put to sleep
- quieten
- reduce
- repress
- retard
- slow
- smother
- soften
- stifle
- stun
- stupefy
- suppress
- tire
- tone down
- unnerve
- weaken
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.