'To drown up' definitions:
Definition of 'To drown up'
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]