"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
  • In 1882 flood waters destroyed the town and drowned 65 people.
  • The tsunami wave height reached 35 feet at Atami, swamping the town and drowning three hundred people.
  • In India, a flood drowned two hundred people, uncounted sacred cows, and washed away several villages.
  • As a result, wadis quickly became rivers, sweeping away cars and drowning 9 people.
  • Call up this governor with the birthday presents, say take him back, he's gonna drown nine hundred people?
  • One steamer sank in 1947, drowning 400 people.
  • Three storms last year caused worse flooding and an unnamed storm in 1993 drowned 10 people.
  • A flood in 1936 drowned more than 100 people along the river.
  • A flash flood in Monterey, Mexico, drowned 1,200 people and left 15,000 homeless.
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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