Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drowning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drown \Drown\, v. i. [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.
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