drowns
SayDROWNZ/dɹaʊnz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of drown.
Without a life jacket, a person drowns quickly in rough water.
Floodwater drowns thousands of acres of farmland during the monsoon.
Note
One spelling gives the subject two opposite roles. Without an object, the subject is the one who goes under: a swimmer drowns. With an object, the subject is the cause: floodwater drowns the fields, a crowd's roar drowns a single voice. So check for an object. If none follows, the subject is the victim. After plural subjects or modals such as can or will, the bare form drown is used.
drowns is a form of drown
drown, verb: To die from suffocation as a result of being immersed in water or another fluid. Full entry
- Spelling
- drown → drowns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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