English

Verb

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

1. (dialectal, proscribed) drown
   • John Nichols

     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:

     "I know now!" exclaimed Tom; "somebody's drownded!"

   • 1922, M. Leonora Eyles, Captivity:

     "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.

2. Archaic spelling of drowned.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, 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:

     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.