how to pronounce drown

/dɹaʊn/

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drown is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of drown in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… only to then drown himself and thus …”

meaning of drown

To drown means to die by drowning.

drown frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word drown occurs in english on average 3.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics drown can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that drown can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

2) people, society, and culture;