Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to drown
Participle: drowned
Gerund: drowning
Indicative
Present
| I | drown |
| you | drown |
| he;she;it | drowns |
| we | drown |
| you | drown |
| they | drown |
Perfect
| I | have drowned |
| you | have drowned |
| he;she;it | has drowned |
| we | have drowned |
| you | have drowned |
| they | have drowned |
Past
| I | drowned |
| you | drowned |
| he;she;it | drowned |
| we | drowned |
| you | drowned |
| they | drowned |
Pluperfect
| I | had drowned |
| you | had drowned |
| he;she;it | had drowned |
| we | had drowned |
| you | had drowned |
| they | had drowned |
Future
| I | will drown |
| you | will drown |
| he;she;it | will drown |
| we | will drown |
| you | will drown |
| they | will drown |
Future Perfect
| I | will have drowned |
| you | will have drowned |
| he;she;it | will have drowned |
| we | will have drowned |
| you | will have drowned |
| they | will have drowned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | drown |
| you | drown |
| he;she;it | drown |
| we | drown |
| you | drown |
| they | drown |
Perfect
| I | have drowned |
| you | have drowned |
| he;she;it | have drowned |
| we | have drowned |
| you | have drowned |
| they | have drowned |
Imperfect
| I | drowned |
| you | drowned |
| he;she;it | drowned |
| we | drowned |
| you | drowned |
| they | drowned |
Pluperfect
| I | had drowned |
| you | had drowned |
| he;she;it | had drowned |
| we | had drowned |
| you | had drowned |
| they | had drowned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would drown |
| you | would drown |
| he;she;it | would drown |
| we | would drown |
| you | would drown |
| they | would drown |
Perfect
| I | would have drowned |
| you | would have drowned |
| he;she;it | would have drowned |
| we | would have drowned |
| you | would have drowned |
| they | would have drowned |
Imperative
| you | drown |
| we | Let's drown |
| you | drown |
Verbs conjugated like 'drown'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'drown'
brown,
crown,
down,
drownd,
frown,
rown,
brawn,
brow,
clown,
coown,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1300, perhaps from O.E.
druncnian "be swallowed up by water" (originally of ships as well as living things), from base of
drincan "to drink." Modern form is from northern England dialect, probably infl. by O.N.
drukna "be drowned."
2. From Middle English drownen, drounen, drunen (“to drown”), of obscure and uncertain origin.
3. The OED suggests an unattested Old English form *drūnian. Harper 2001 points to Old English druncnian, ġedruncnian (> Middle English drunknen, dronknen (“to drown”)), "probably influenced" by Old Norse drukkna (cf. Icelandic drukkna, Danish drukne (“to drown”)). Funk & Wagnall's has 'of uncertain origin'. It has been theorised (see e.g. ODS) that it may represent a direct loan of Old Norse drukkna, but this is described by the OED as being "on phonetic and other grounds [...] highly improbable", unless one considers the possibility of an unattested variant in Old Norse *drunkna. See: Icelandic '
drukkna', Danish '
drukne'.
Verbs referencing "drown"
Esperanto
droni, Ido dronar, Danish
drukne.
Sample Sentences
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There I remained until I got better: suffering, whenever I was recommended to eat anything, an amount of anguish only second to that which is said to be endured by the apparently drowned, in the process of restoration to life. One gentleman on board had a letter of introduction to me from a mutual friend in London. He sent it below with his card, on the morning of the head-wind; [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] or sit without holding on, they were all heaped together in one corner of a long sofa—a fixture extending entirely across the cabin—where they clung to each other in momentary expectation of being drowned. When I approached this place with my specific, and was about to administer it with many consolatory expressions to the nearest sufferer, what was my dismay to see them all roll slowly down to the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ O, George, you didn't do it ! ” “ Do it ? not I ! — but he did. Mas’r and Tom pelted the poor drowning creature with stones. Poor thing ! he looked at me so mournful, as if he wondered why I didn't save him. I had to take a flogging because I wouldn't do it myself. I don't care. Mas’r will find out [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and having earth yet about their roots, are bathing their green heads in the river, and putting forth new shoots and branches. Some are almost sliding down, as you look at them. And some were drowned so long ago, that their bleached arms start out from the middle of the current, and seem to try to grasp the boat, and drag it under water.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of their comrades, notwithstanding, do the like, from time to time; and instances of loss of life in the effort to cross the river with this object, are far from being uncommon. Several men were drowned in the attempt to swim across, not long ago; and one, who had the madness to trust himself upon a table as a raft, was swept down to the whirlpool, where his mangled body eddied round and round some [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] not forgotten, as a coming day shall show; for it is written, “ Who causeth one of these little ones to offend, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)