drownd

Archaic spelling of drowned.

Verb alt of, archaic

  1. Archaic spelling of drowned.
    • One of his feete unwares from him did slide, That downe hee fell into the deepe abisse, Where drownd with him is all his earthlie blisse. - 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume 5:
    • 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. - 1676,...

Verb dialectal, nonstandard

  1. To drown.
    • By which the little brookes forsooke their boundes, And water all the passages so drownds […] - 1831, John Nichols, Accounts of Sixty Royal Processions and Entertainments in the City of London:
    • "I know now!" exclaimed Tom; "somebody's drownded!" - 1876, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
    • "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. - 1922, M. Leonora Eyles, Captivity:

Forms

drownds drownding drownded

Derived

drownder