(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.
Grown
Definition:
() p. p. of Grow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
(2) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(3) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(4) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(5) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(6) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
(7) The latest story will show Bridget more "grown up" but she is "never going to change really".
(8) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(9) When it was grown, it would bring both ecstasy and catastrophe to women.
(10) Peptidoglycan of MRSA grown in the presence of cefazolin was susceptible to lysis by respiratory mucus.
(11) Further, metastatic tumors were capable of being successfully grown in a high percentage of cases, which was comparable to the results obtained for other kinds of tumors.
(12) Cultures of Streptococcus mutans HS-6, OMZ-176, Ingbritt C, 6715-wt13, and pooled human plaque were grown in trypticase soy media with or without 1% sucrose.
(13) C. tropicalis was grown in a medium containing Brij 35, resulting in the induction of a moderate number of medium-sized peroxisomes.
(14) In the course of its history, psychiatry has grown richer parallel to the development of its spatiotemporal system of the reference.
(15) When grown in the absence of the inhibitor, these cells possessed very high ornithine decarboxylase levels.
(16) But its population has since grown to 2.8 million people, meaning the region would have one police officer for every 530 people if the force was to be cut back to 1974 levels.
(17) Mutation rates in aerobically-grown cultures were increased up to 2.2-fold in katG and katEkatG strains.
(18) Bacillus subtilis grown at 42 degrees C produces a major form of Gro EL-like chaperonin that has been analyzed by electron microscopy.
(19) Growth of C. albicans in the presence of AGE affected the yeast lipid in a number of ways: the total lipid content was decreased; garlic-grown yeasts had a higher level of phosphatidylserines and a lower level of phosphatidylcholines; in addition to free sterols and sterol esters, C. albicans accumulated esterified steryl glycosides; the concentration of palmitic acid (16:0) and oleic acid (18:1) increased and that of linoleic acid (18:2) and linolenic acid (18:3) decreased.
(20) Twenty-eight out of 49 countries in [sub-Saharan] Africa have not had a household survey since 2006 and yet in Africa since 2005 the population has grown by 30%,” she said.