Can you drown and not die?

Answer 1

Yes. Technically, you only need to suck water into your lungs to drown. Since doing so usually causes death almost instantly, very few people survive the ordeal.

That said, though, if someone is able to force the water out of your lungs and revive you, then you drowned and lived to talk about it.

Answer 2

I don't really know. But i'll to answer.

I think you can be drowned and not die. Drown does not necessarily means that you die. Drown means to be submerged under something. Drown is a cause of death, not death itself.

She died because she drowned. She drowned because fell in the water and was submerged (for a few minutes).

Answer 3

If you didn't die, you didn't drown. The defininition of drowning includes death. If you didn't die, you had a hard time breathing in water before a) you swam out, or b) someone rescued you (the more likely I think)

Answer 4

This is actually a good question since you'll get different answers from different sources-- even different dictionaries. Some say to drown means to DIE from inhaling water, others suggest it's only to suffocate from submersions in water. To complicate it-- some say to suffocate means to die and other say it's "to be uncomfortable through lack of air". I think it's not written in stone and depends on the context. It's definitely not as concrete as "electrocuted" which specifically means TO DIE by electricity even though everyone uses it to mean "get a shock".

Answer 5

drown
v. drowned, drown·ing, drowns
v. intr.

To die by suffocating in water or another liquid.

So not really, no. You can't say... drown in a river and live. Drowning involves dieing. If you didn't die, you didn't drown.

Answer 6

No. If you didn't die by drowning, then you didn't drown. You "almost drowned" but you didn't actually drown. Even if you were unconscious and someone was able to perform CPR and revive you, then you didn't drown. Understand?

Answer 7

To kill by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid.
To drench thoroughly or cover with or as if with a liquid.
To deaden one's awareness of; blot out: people who drowned their troubles in drink.
To muffle or mask (a sound) by a louder sound: screams that were drowned out by the passing train.

But as far as drowning and not being dead.no. you die if you drown.

Answer 8

im not sure but i think if u drown u r going to die

Answer 9

A definition of "drown" from the dictionary:

To die by suffocating in water or another liquid.

I would say it would be impossible to die, yet somehow, not die.

Answer 10

Um no because drowning is the act of death by the lungs filling with water and being unable to breathe.