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Word: drowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...hard to get a good hold on him. I tried to grab his hair, but it was cut too short. I kept smashing out at him with both fists but it didn't do much good. He knocked me under several times, like he was trying to drown me. Every time I came up I got big gulpfuls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Jiu-jitsu in the Sea | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...HELP-Shall we drown our child and her dog or will some human being rent a furnished house or apartment to responsible party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unkindest Cut | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

Drop hammers fall with ground-shaking concussions. The planishing machine makes a staccato racket that would drown out a couple of machine guns. The operators pay no attention to these shattering factory noises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: No Noise | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Bulldogs will have to do more than bark to drown out the Crimson stands in the Yale Bowl two weeks from Saturday, for the Band has announced that they definitely will make the trip to New Haven in full strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Journey to Yale in Full Strength | 11/6/1942 | See Source »

...with the Administration's war effort. But the grind on Ed Flynn comes here: if the Democrats lose he will get all the lumps; if the Democrats win he will get no more reward than a character who brings back kittens to a man who left them to drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Double Trouble | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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