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undrowning

undrowning is the present participle and gerund of undrown.

Meaning of undrown

Verb

undrown (third-person singular simple present undrowns, present participle undrowning, simple past and past participle undrowned)

  1. (rare, transitive) To remove the water from (something drowned or flooded); to unflood.
    • All available pumps were put into action to undrown the fifty-acre working area behind it.1956, Helen Marie Newell, The Hardhats, page 210

Questions about undrowning

What is undrowning the present participle and gerund of?
Undrowning is the present participle and gerund of undrown.

Words near undrowning in the dictionary

  1. undrossed
  2. undrossy
  3. undrown
  4. undrownable
  5. undrowned
  6. undrowning
  7. undrowns
  8. UNDRR
  9. undruggable
  10. undrugged
  11. undrunk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undrowning (page history and authors); undrown (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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