drownd

See also: drown'd

English

drownd (third-person singular simple present drownds, present participle drownding, simple past and past participle drownded)

(nonstandard, dialectal) To drown.
- 1831, John Nichols, Accounts of Sixty Royal Processions and Entertainments in the City of London:
  By which the little brookes forsooke their boundes,
  And water all the passages so drownds […]
- 1876, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‎^[1]:
  "I know now!" exclaimed Tom; "somebody's drownded!"
- 1922, M. Leonora Eyles, Captivity‎^[2]:
  "Next time yous come along we'll have had a drop o' rain, an' then you can drownd yourselfs if you want to," said the stationmaster.
Archaic spelling of drowned.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser‎^[3], volume 5:
  One of his feete unwares from him did slide, That downe hee fell into the deepe abisse, 545 Where drownd with him is all his earthlie blisse.
- 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler‎^[4]:
  God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found, As if the world were in deep waters drownd.