Meanings (ES + gloss)
afogarse • ahogarse
To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild / Continuance tames the one; the other wild, / Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still, / With too much labour drowns for want of sk…
When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
afogar • ahogar
To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.
The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me, / Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown’d on shore, / With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:
Phrases
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