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drowns out

drowns out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drown out.

Meaning of drown out

Verb

drown out (third-person singular simple present drowns out, present participle drowning out, simple past and past participle drowned out)

  1. (idiomatic) To cover, obscure, or overwhelm by being louder or more intense than.
    • He uses the music to drown out other noises around him.
    Synonyms:
    outdin

Questions about drowns out

What is drowns out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Drowns out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of drown out.

Words near drowns out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drowns out (page history and authors); drown out (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.

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