Drowning synonyms
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To be covered or flooded with a liquid:
To sink or plunge beneath the surface of water, etc.
To flood or submerge with or as with water
To kill by cutting off the supply of oxygen to the lungs, gills, etc.
To cause to surround, to cover.
To wrap up in a shawl, blanket, cloak, etc. so as to hide, keep warm, or protect
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To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp:
To baptize by submerging in water.
To rise, flow, or gush out in or as in a flood
To wet through and through; soak.
To overwhelm as with a flood
To appear to move downward, as the sun or moon in setting.
To suffocate
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To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place:
To scoop up by plunging the hand or a receptacle below the surface, as of a liquid; ladle:
To flow over or across; flood
To submerge, cover, or engulf
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
floating (antonym)
To allow the exchange value of (a currency) to fluctuate freely in relationship to other currencies
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saving (antonym)
To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem:
rescuing (antonym)
To free or save from danger, imprisonment, evil, etc.
dying (related)
To mold, stamp, cut, or shape with a die
killing (related)
Kill is defined as to cause to die or to destroy.
caught (related)
falling (related)
waving (related)
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Find another word for drowning. In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for drowning, like: swimming, submerging, swamping, suffocating, soaking, overwhelming, muffling, inundating, immersing, flooding and drenching.