"drown" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

drown verbo

drown + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 8
drown one's sorrows • drown out one's voice • drown one's voice • drown out one's words • drown one's children • ...
(1) sorrow, RUTH
Kolokacji: 2
(2) voice, word, child, people
Kolokacji: 6
1. drown out one's voice = zagłuszać czyjś głos drown out one's voice
2. drown one's voice = topić czyjś głos drown one's voice
3. drown out one's words = zagłuszać czyjś słowa drown out one's words
4. drown one's children = topić czyjś dzieci drown one's children
  • Mrs. Yates was given a life sentence for drowning her five children.
  • Specialist Morgan had confessed to drowning her children in the bathtub.
  • What could possibly have driven a nice middle-class suburban mother to drown her five children?
  • She's the ghost of a woman who drowned her own children and she takes other children in an effort to replace them.
  • One case was simply unthinkable: a mother drowned her five children.
  • She drowned her three children in the lake behind her house.
  • The weight of the evidence was that she knew it was wrong when she drowned her children.
  • Some mothers who had drowned their children were unable to drown themselves thereafter.
  • Maria, knowing that her husband no longer loves her, drowns their three children in the river and then herself.
  • As a matter of law, it appears that she knew she was drowning her children.
6. drown one's words = topić czyjś słowa drown one's words
verbo + drown
Kolokacji: 3
try to drown • avoid drowning • escape drowning
drown + preposición
Kolokacji: 20
drown out • drown in • drown at • drown on • drown by • ...
drown + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 11
accidentally drown • eventually drown • slowly drown • completely drown • surely drown • ...

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