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drown

B1 verb

drown /dɹaʊn/ nghĩa là dìm, đuối nước

Các nghĩa

  1. dìm · đuối nước

    To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

    intransitive

    When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.

  2. dìm chết đuối

    To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

    transitive

    The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.

  3. bị ngập, chìm ngập

    To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

    intransitive

    We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.

    Penny Guy: Bloody hell, Rog, whadda you want? / Roger O'Neill: To drown in your arms and hide in yer eyes, darlin'.

  4. làm ngập, nhấn chìm

    To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

    figuratively · transitive

    He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.

    Though most men being in sensuall pleasures drownd, / It seemes their Soules but in the Senses are.

    Come, thou monarch of the vine, / Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! / In thy fats our cares be drown’d, / With thy grapes our hairs be crown’d:

  5. che khuất, lấn át

    To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

    figuratively · transitive

    The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

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