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Verb: drone  drown
  1. [informal] Make a monotonous low dull sound
    "The harmonium was droning on"
     
  2. [informal] Talk in a monotonous voice
    - drone on
     
  3. Kill remotely using a military drone
Noun: drone  drown
  1. Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
     
  2. [informal] An unchanging intonation
    - monotone, droning
     
  3. An aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
    - pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft
     
  4. A pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
    - drone pipe, bourdon
     
  5. Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
    - dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke

Derived forms: droned, droning, drones

Type of: bee, bum [N. Amer, informal], deadbeat [informal], do-nothing [informal], go, heavier-than-air craft, idler, intonation, layabout [informal], loafer, modulation, mouth, pipe, pitch contour, shirker [informal], slacker [informal], sound, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Part of: bagpipe

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