drowning
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When drowning helps
Base Score
8
15 with pangram bonus
Unique Letters
7
D G I N O R W
Two-Letter Start
DR
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ING
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- 8 letters
- 7 unique letters
- DR start
- ING ending
- pangram-shaped
- repeated letters
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- drowning is worth 8 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses exactly seven unique letters, which makes it a pangram candidate when the hive matches those letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (N x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The ING ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the DR start.
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Pronunciation
verb
To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
verb
To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
verb
To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
verb
To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
verb
(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
"The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather."
noun
An instance of a person or animal drowning.
"It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year."
Related Words
Same Letters
- wrongdoing
- wording
Synonyms
- flood
- inundate