"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
6. drown one's words = topić czyjś słowa drown one's words
  • If she answered, the wind drowned her words.
  • She made some reply, but the roar of jet engines screaming at high speed over the building drowned her words.
  • It was a great, thunderous roar which drowned his words and jarred the earth about him.
  • He called to me, but the sound of my engine drowned his words.
  • Conrad tried hard to hear, but Kurt's amplified voice drowned her words.
  • A roar from the crowd drowned his last words.
  • He didn't answer, and as I tried to explain, the blaring radio drowned my words.
  • I have called off the crying of my beggars because the wind drowns their words.
  • The roar of the tumbling waters drowned his words.
  • She began to say something when the taxi-driver, for no apparent reason, blew his horn and drowned her 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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