drone
verb/drəʊn/
/drəʊn/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they drone | /drəʊn/ /drəʊn/ |
| he / she / it drones | /drəʊnz/ /drəʊnz/ |
| past simple droned | /drəʊnd/ /drəʊnd/ |
| past participle droned | /drəʊnd/ /drəʊnd/ |
| -ing form droning | /ˈdrəʊnɪŋ/ /ˈdrəʊnɪŋ/ |
- to make a continuous low noise
- A plane was droning in the distance.
- a droning voice
- I fell asleep to the sound of their voices droning through the warm afternoon.
Word OriginOld English drān, drǣn ‘male bee’, from a West Germanic verb meaning ‘resound, boom’; related to Dutch dreunen ‘to drone’, German dröhnen ‘to roar’, and Swedish dröna ‘to drowse’.Want to learn more?
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