Other forms: drownings
Drowning is dying through being unable to breathe under water. Save him from drowning, a drowning accident, at risk of drowning.
It rarely looks like the films: a drowning person usually cannot shout or wave, because breathing takes priority over speech and the arms press down on the water instead. It is quiet and quick. Reaching or throwing is safer than swimming out.
1noundrowningDying through being unable to breathe under water.
“Every summer there are drownings in the river because people underestimate the current.”
drowning is a death.