Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

drowning one's sorrows

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English

Syllables
drown-ing one's -sor-rows
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of drown one's sorrows

Questions

What does drowning one's sorrows mean?
present participle and gerund of drown one's sorrows

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