drown

Object

• kitten: MORE » Keeping Cats Sophie just cannot let Tracy's dad drown the five kittens that evening.
• sorrow: Arraignment of Garnet; he comforts himself with sack to drown sorrow.
• tragedy: A little further on they came on a drowning tragedy.
• man: In Osaka, a young man drowned a homeless man by throwing him into a river in broad daylight.
• valley: Rias are drowned river valleys, characteristically found in southwest Britain.

Preposition: at

• sea: She was sunk by enemy action early in 1915 and my father was drowned at sea, his first voyage on her.

Modifying Another Word

• tragically: The actor playing the older boy, Vladimir Garin, was tragically drowned after the film's completion.
• accidentally: Caroline Taylor's father accidentally drowned in the 1890's which appears to be suicide.
• nearly: Above is the actual spot where Gerald & Johnny nearly drowned.
• unfortunately: It was unfortunately drowned out by too load music in particular the drummer.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• out: The ringing of glasses is almost drowned out by the din of drunken voices.

Particle object:

• noise: Then the boy turned up the radio on his nightstand to drown out the noise his parents were making.
• voice: Unfortunately, we so often see that the shrill rhetoric of extremism many times drowns out the more moderate voices.

Used with why or when

• when: After he drowned when his ship was sunk in the first World War, some people wouldn't believe he was dead.

Preposition: in

• sea: Once he rescued three boys from drowning in a choppy sea.
• tub: People drown in bath tubs, which is still not sufficient reason to refrain from bathing.
• pond: On Sunday morning Nathaniel Mason found deceased drowned in a pond by the roadside, Golding said they had parted company in the road.
• mud: To stray, or slip, from these fragile pathways incurred a serious risk of drowning in mud and water.
• flood: You drown in that cruel flood, gasping for breath.
• river: Deer have even been known to be drowned in the rivers by the hunters.