drowning

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

present participle and gerund of drown

Noun

1. An instance of a person or animal drowning.
2. An instance of a person or animal being drowned.

drown

1. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
2. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
3. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

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Concepts

noyade

asphyxie

étouffement

suffocation

Synonymes

asphyxia

asphyxiation

drown

flood

perishing

shipwreck

sinking

smothering

flood disaster

Traductions

verdrinking

Ertrinken

affogamento

afogamento

ertrinken

اختناق

ahogamiento

Flutkatastrophe

مغرورق

Erstickungstod

تغريق

إغراق

ertrinkend

Flut

Erstickung

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈdɹaʊnɪŋ/