Drowning

/ˈdɹaʊnɪŋ/

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:13 ptsWWF:16 pts8 letters

Definition of Drowning

verb

To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
"The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather."

noun

An instance of a person or animal drowning.
"It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year."

Anagrams of Drowning

Words You Can Make

50 words can be made from the letters in "drowning":

7-LETTER WORDS

downing droning ingrown wording

6-LETTER WORDS

dowing owning rowing

5-LETTER WORDS

dingo doing drown giron grind groin grown indow owing wring wrong

4-LETTER WORDS

ding dino dong down gird girn giro gowd gown grid grin grow inro iron nodi+9 more

3-LETTER WORDS

dig din dog don dor dow gid gin

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "drowning" and rearranging:

Related Word Patterns

DR...Words starting with "dr"...NGWords ending with "ng"All 8-letter words Unscramble "drowning"

Synonyms & Antonyms

SYNONYMS

floodinundate

Rhyming Words

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