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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drown \Drown\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Drowned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drowning}.] [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See {Drunken}, {Drink}.] To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Methought, what pain it was to drown. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
drowned
adjective: dead by drowning; "poor drowned sailors"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "drowned": afloat, at flood, awash, bathed, buried, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, engulfed, flooded, immersed, in spate, inflood, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed, sunken, swamped, swept, undersea, underwater, washed, water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet
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