ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not drowned, in various senses.

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  (a)  1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 104. To prouide ye of meadow for hay; if fennes be vndrowned, there cheapest ye may.

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  (b)  1610.  Shaks., Temp., II. i. 237. ’Tis as impossible that hee’s vndrown’d, As he that sleepes heere, swims. Seb. I haue no hope That hee’s vndrown’d.

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a. 1684.  Leighton, Com. 1 Pet. iii. 21 (1849), II. 240. What availed it wicked Ham, to outlive the flood,… to be kept undrowned in the waters?

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1849.  Alison, Hist. Eur., II. viii. § 36. Such … as were thrown undrowned upon the shore.

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1858.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. vii. (1872), II. 128. Gundling … breaks a big hole in the ice, and scarcely … can be got out undrowned.

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  (c)  1838.  [Mrs. Maitland], Lett. fr. Madras (1843), 222. I was in hopes … I might be able to make out some of their tunes undrowned by their … accompaniments.

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1861.  Geo. Eliot, Silas M., i. A village where many of the old echoes lingered, undrowned by new voices.

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