DROWN

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

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Etymology

Verb

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.

Usage notes

When using the term figuratively to describe overwhelming sounds, the form drown out is now usually employed.

Synonyms

• (to cover, as with water): flood, inundate

Anagrams

• N-word, n-word

Proper noun

Drown (plural Drowns)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Drown is the 7684^th 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.

Anagrams

• N-word, n-word

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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