drown

/draʊn/ verb

Translation

DIE [I, T] › to die because you are under water and cannot breathe, or to kill someone in this way

suda boğulmak/boğmak

Two people drowned in a boating accident yesterday.224456457

COVER [T] ( also drown out) › If a loud noise drowns the sound of something else, it prevents that sound from being heard.

gürültüye/sese boğmak

His voice was drowned out by the traffic.1261

(Definition of drown verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to do something that spoils someone's plans

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