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drowning

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈdɹaʊnɪŋ//
  • //ˈdɹuːnɪn//

An instance of a person or animal drowning.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of drownpresent participle and gerund of drown

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of a person or animal drowning.

    It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.

  2. 2

    An instance of a person or animal being drowned.

Forms

plural
drownings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).