'Drown' definitions:
Definition of 'drown'
(from WordNet)
verb
Cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: submerge, drown, overwhelm]
verb
Get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
verb
Die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
verb
Kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
verb
Be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: swim, drown]
Definition of 'Drown'
From: GCIDE
- Drown \Drown\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning.] [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.] To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. [1913 Webster]
- Methought, what pain it was to drown. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Drown'
From: GCIDE
- Drown \Drown\, v. t.
- 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. [1913 Webster]
- Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
- My private voice is drowned amid the senate. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] --Holland. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'drown'
From: Easton
- Drown (Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6.
Synonyms of 'drown'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asphyxiate,
- baptize,
- be clobbered,
- be felled,
- be killed,
- be poleaxed,
- be staggered,
- be stricken,
- bottle up,
- burke,
- bury,
- censor,
- choke,
- choke off,
- clamp down on,
- come to grief,
- cork,
- cork up,
- crack down on,
- crush,
- damp down,
- deluge,
- dip,
- douse,
- drench,
- duck,
- dunk,
- engulf,
- extinguish,
- famish,
- float,
- flood,
- flow on,
- founder,
- gag,
- garrote,
- have a mishap,
- hold down,
- immerge,
- immerse,
- inundate,
- jump on,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kill,
- knock over,
- merge,
- muzzle,
- OD,
- overcome,
- overflow,
- overpower,
- overwhelm,
- plunge in water,
- pour on,
- pour water on,
- prostrate,
- put down,
- quash,
- quell,
- quench,
- rain,
- repress,
- run aground,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- sink,
- sit down on,
- sit on,
- sluice,
- smash,
- smother,
- soak,
- sop,
- souse,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stanch,
- starve,
- stifle,
- stop the breath,
- strangle,
- stultify,
- subdue,
- submerge,
- submerse,
- suffer a misfortune,
- suffocate,
- suppress,
- swamp,
- throttle,
- wet,
- whelm