drowning
drowning is a polysyllabic word with 2 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, drowning is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofdrowning
- To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
Example: "The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather."
- An instance of a person or animal drowning.
Example: "It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year."
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