Drown

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To kill by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid.
  • v. To drench thoroughly or cover with or as if with a liquid.
  • v. To deaden one's awareness of; blot out: people who drowned their troubles in drink.
  • v. To muffle or mask (a sound) by a louder sound: screams that were drowned out by the passing train.
  • verb-intransitive. To die by suffocating in water or another liquid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
  • v. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
  • v. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
  • v. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out"
  • v. To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
  • v. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
  • v. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
  • v. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To be suffocated by immersion in water or other liquid.
  • To suffocate by immersion in water or other liquid; hence, to destroy, extinguish, or ruin by or as if by submersion.
  • To overflow; inundate: as, to drown land.
  • Figuratively, to plunge deeply; submerge; overwhelm: as, to drown remorse in sensual pleasure.
  • In physical geography, to submerge beneath the waters of a lake or ocean: said of a valley that is thus converted into a bay by a relative change of land- and water-level. See drowned stream.
  • In tobacco culture, to injure by long-continued rain followed by warm sunshine. The tobacco soon wilts under these conditions. Also called scald.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. kill by submerging in water
  • v. cover completely or make imperceptible
  • v. die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
  • v. be covered with or submerged in a liquid
  • v. get rid of as if by submerging
  • Verb Form
    drowned    drowning    drowns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    kill    cover    spread over    expire    pop off    choke    buy the farm    conk    cash in one's chips    snuff it   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    submerge    inundate    overpower    overcome    extinguish    flood   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brown    Browne    Down    Downe    Town    around    brown    clown    crown    crowne   
    Same Context
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