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secondary drownings

secondary drownings is the plural of secondary drowning.

Meaning of secondary drowning

Noun

secondary drowning (usually uncountable, plural secondary drownings)

  1. (usually) Asphyxiation caused by irritation of alveoli from the aspiration of liquid, after recovery from immersion into liquid, in the three-day period following the immersion episode.

Questions about secondary drownings

What is secondary drownings the plural of?
Secondary drownings is the plural of secondary drowning.

Words near secondary drownings in the dictionary

  1. secondary consumers
  2. secondary diagonal
  3. secondary diagonals
  4. secondary dominant
  5. secondary drowning
  6. secondary drownings
  7. secondary education
  8. secondary emission
  9. secondary emissions
  10. secondary energies
  11. secondary energy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secondary drownings (page history and authors); secondary drowning (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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