What's the difference between drown and perish?

Drown


Definition:

  • (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.

Perish


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
  • (v. t.) To cause perish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
  • (2) The groups of survived and perished animals differed (the difference was statistically significant) by the extent of coordination of the enzymatic lymphocyte systems: the correlation of enzymatic indices in the survived animals was greater than in the perished ones.
  • (3) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
  • (4) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
  • (5) The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy.
  • (6) Wet corn gluten feed is also an adequate supplement for raising dairy replacements, allowing more rapid utilization of this perishable feed resource by the dairy herd.
  • (7) Niger to ban women and children travelling in Sahara after 92 perish Read more The sub-Saharan migrants are determined.
  • (8) Final internal processing temperatures within the range of 63 to 74 degrees C did not alter the degree of botulinal inhibition in inoculated perishable canned comminuted cured pork abused at 27 degrees C. Adding hemoglobin to the formulation reduced residual nitrite after processing and decreased botulinal inhibition.
  • (9) In 1945 I got word that my two sons had died in the Leningrad blockade and my husband had perished fighting in Smolensk.
  • (10) Non-perishables – spaghetti, rice, flour, condensed milk, tomato sauce – come from the food bank.
  • (11) More than 30 of the 189 Americans who perished on the flight were from the state of New Jersey.
  • (12) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
  • (13) There was not only an increase in average days of survival of those that perished, but also a marked increase in the number of greater than 60-day survivors.
  • (14) After a crisis meeting at the Elysée on Friday morning, Hollande confirmed that all 118 people on board – 112 passengers and six Spanish crew – had perished.
  • (15) Your little country will forever be honoured as the site that made the Princess Diana thing look like a restrained wake for a loathed spinster who perished alone on a desert island.
  • (16) It became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
  • (17) The control group was composed of 7 practically healthy persons who had perished suddenly as a result of craniocerebral trauma.
  • (18) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
  • (19) We're here to celebrate not only comrade Madiba but all the men and women who perished in the liberation war."
  • (20) When using in the lymphocytotoxic reaction lymphocytes stored in frozen condition the proportion of perished cells after thawing should not exceed 10-20%.