Word.ws English Dictionary

drowns one's sorrows

drowns one's sorrows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drown one's sorrows.

Meaning of drown one's sorrows

Verb

drown one's sorrows (third-person singular simple present drowns one's sorrows, present participle drowning one's sorrows, simple past and past participle drowned one's sorrows)

  1. To drink alcohol heavily to deal with miserable feelings.

Questions about drowns one's sorrows

What is drowns one's sorrows the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Drowns one's sorrows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drown one's sorrows.

Words near drowns one's sorrows in the dictionary

  1. drownproof
  2. drownproofed
  3. drownproofing
  4. drownproofs
  5. drowns
  6. drowns one's sorrows
  7. drowns out
  8. drowns the miller
  9. drowse
  10. drowsed
  11. drowses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drowns one's sorrows (page history and authors); drown one's sorrows (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “drowns one's sorrows.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/drowns_one%27s_sorrows. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.