(v. i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
(v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
(v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
(v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
(2) He had been extremely frustrated that indicators of economic recovery over the past few days had been drowned out by the clamour over the Labour leadership.
(3) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(4) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
(5) "So we do what we can to keep the red tide from drowning us.
(6) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(7) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(8) Examples and statistical data are drown from this series.
(9) The results are analyzed within the context of the child drowning and child development literature.
(10) It can be seen that the physiologic changes occurring in near-drowning are complex.
(11) But if anyone was drowned out, it was the Greens’ Natalie Bennett .
(12) But the overall drownings seem to be going up and I don’t know if it’s older people, if it’s young men being more brave around water.” Lawrence suggested children may be failing to continue swimming and water safety education once they have basic skills.
(13) These findings indicate a need for Los Angeles County to address the problem of drownings among infants and toddlers in private swimming pools and to investigate the failure of regulations requiring fencing of swimming pools to prevent these deaths.
(14) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(15) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
(16) As the party's internal electoral commission counted and recounted the votes during the day, appeals for calm were drowned out by waves of accusation and counter-accusation.
(17) The hemodynamic effects of the drowning solutions were explainable solely by the effects of anoxia.
(18) A drowning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, also was linked to the storm.
(19) It was reported that the Greek tourist board had asked TV networks to keep the crowd volume low amid fears Greek fans in the stadium would drown out the German national anthem with jeers.
(20) In order to study the initial pathological changes that occur in drowning, the authors developed an experimental model that closely simulates the actual changes in the nearly drowned patient.
Founder
Definition:
(n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
(n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
(v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
(v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
(v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.
(v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
(n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
(n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(3) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(4) The first decades of this Institute were shaped by the assistant of Robert Koch, Friedrich Loeffler (1852-1915), an important microbiologist and one of the founders of virology.
(5) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
(6) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(7) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(8) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
(9) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(10) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
(11) Lyft co-Founder and president John Zimmer and GM president Dan Ammann say the two companies began serious discussions about three months ago.
(12) I want to raise awareness about the number of people who now feel afraid on our streets and map areas where people at risk can feel safest,” said the site’s founder, Hanna Thomas.
(13) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
(14) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
(15) Responding quickly, whatever the channel, is one of the most important things when it comes to how happy clients feel about the interaction they’ve had,” said Simon Hay, co-founder of online learning platform Firefly .
(16) The windfalls - which it declined to disclose - for its founders may not quite match the sums paid to the creators of YouTube and MySpace but the $280m deal is a welcome pay off for a project that started out from one room in Whitechapel, east London .
(17) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(18) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(19) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
(20) In a letter to potential investors, Groupon's co-founder and chief executive, Andrew Mason, warned future growth could come at the expense of profit.