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kick the bucket vs drown

drown vs kick the bucket

kick the bucket and drown both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
kick the bucket No No Yes No
drown No No Yes No
As verbs, drown is a hyponym of kick the bucket; that is, drown is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than kick the bucket:
  • kick the bucket: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  • drown: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
Other hyponyms of kick the bucket include abort, asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate, buy it, pip out, predecease, famish, starve, fall, succumb, yield.
kick the bucket (verb) drown (verb)
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
kill by submerging in water
get rid of as if by submerging
cover completely or make imperceptible
be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
be covered with or submerged in a liquid
Difference between kick the bucket and drown

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