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drowned

adjective as in suffocated

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A mom who authorities allege drowned her 7-year-old daughter at a Van Nuys apartment this month was charged with murder, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Two British tourists have drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef.

From BBC

A Van Nuys woman was arrested late Friday after police found her 7-year-old daughter drowned in a bathtub at their home, authorities said.

But that caveat is drowned out by the hyperbolic and highly gendered language that frames empathy as emasculating.

From Salon

A mother who drowned her two young sons in the bath in what the judge described as "the stuff of nightmares" has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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