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verbundrown (third-person singular simple present undrowns, present participle undrowning, simple past and past participle undrowned)
present singular third person undrowns · participle present undrowning · participle past undrowned · past undrowned
- raretransitiveTo remove the water from (something drowned or flooded); to unflood.
All available pumps were put into action to undrown the fifty-acre working area behind it.
1956, Helen Marie Newell, The Hardhats, page 2101 more example
Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.
1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms, page 143
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undrown. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undrown
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“undrown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undrown. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undrown,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undrown.
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