Drowned [adjective]

Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.

This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.

Frantic applause, several times repeated, which drowned the voice of the orator.

There I was, practically tête-à-tête with the man; the noise of the crowd drowned my cries and remonstrances.

A tidal wave rolls landward, and twenty thousand human beings are drowned, or crushed to death.

The words of her daughter had put the Marchioness to silence, and she leaned upon the shoulder of Louis, drowned in tears.

Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.

The clear and radiant sky was drowned in a quivering radiance of gold, that was like a thing alive and sensitively palpitating.

It seemed incredible, and the rest of the calls were almost drowned out in the consternation that followed.

A mighty shock drowned the boy's words at this moment, and seemed to jeer at them.