Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Confusion flooded Cynthia's mind, drowning her in doubt and questions.

Say you're a world class swimmer and spot a drowning man.

14) blows about the equinox, and occasionally, in the winter months, with almost hurricane force for three days together; it is recorded to have caused the drowning of 600 persons in the harbour in 1555.

They were crossing the Euphrates, not far from the castle of Jaber, when the drowning of their leader by accident threw confusion into their ranks.