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drowned

adjective as in suffocated

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One of the three, Ralph Goodwin, is said to have drowned while swimming at a beach outside Havana.

So quiet, in fact, that it is drowned out by the voices of everyone around her.

He was talking about the kinds of kittens that are drowned when nobody wants them.

You'll have to report the drowned Iraqi soldier, but no US leaders will care.

L. Jinny explains that “the love is all drowned in [inaudible].”

Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.

This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.

Frantic applause, several times repeated, which drowned the voice of the orator.

There I was, practically tête-à-tête with the man; the noise of the crowd drowned my cries and remonstrances.

A tidal wave rolls landward, and twenty thousand human beings are drowned, or crushed to death.

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

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