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- verb Present participle of
drownd .
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Examples
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Thursday, Jul. 13, 2006, 7: 42 a.m. While my Honda (its name is "Bruce," by the way, in case you forgot) is recovering from its near-fatal drownding, I have been driving a rental car.
bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2006
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P.S. If you wish, you may auction off this letter to the gurls of your collidge—on condition that the proceeds go to the Society for the drownding of Armenian Airedales.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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P.S. If you wish, you may auction off this letter to the gurls of your collidge—on condition that the proceeds go to the Society for the drownding of Armenian Airedales.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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It was well for some folks that we scaped drownding; for mistress was very frexious, and seemed but indifferently prepared for a change; but, thank God, she was soon put in a better frame by the private exaltations of the reverend Mr Macrocodile. —
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Most of the men had long since grown bored with his drownding fears, and they left him to dry out his clothes as best he could.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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Jasper Fant came near to realizing his lifelong fear of drownding when his horse spooked at a beaver and shook him off into the icy water.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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As soon as he reached swimming depth, he forgot Gus and everything else, due to a fear of drownding.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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The dragging pants, with the rifle in one leg, were drownding him.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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As soon as he reached swimming depth, he forgot Gus and everything else, due to a fear of drownding.
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985
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The dragging pants, with the rifle in one leg, were drownding him.
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985
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