drown
(verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; “The child drowned in the lake”
drown
(verb) get rid of as if by submerging; “She drowned her trouble in alcohol”
drown
(verb) kill by submerging in water; “He drowned the kittens”
submerge, drown, overwhelm
(verb) cover completely or make imperceptible; “I was drowned in work”; “The noise drowned out her speech”
drown
(verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation; “the divers saved the drowning child”
swim, drown
(verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid; “the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drown (third-person singular simple present drowns, present participle drowning, simple past and past participle drowned)
(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
(intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
(transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
(transitive, figurative, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
When using the term figuratively to describe overwhelming sounds, the form drown out is now usually employed.
• (to cover, as with water): flood, inundate
• N-word, n-word
Drown (plural Drowns)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Drown is the 7684th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4321 individuals. Drown is most common among White (73.62%) and Black/African American (20.81%) individuals.
• N-word, n-word
Source: Wiktionary
Drown, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning.] Etym: [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]
Definition: To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.
Drown, v. t.
1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." Dryden.
2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2024
(verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; “The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks”
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