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Meaning of 'drown' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Drown [ v. i.]
- To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
2 . Drown [ v. t.]
- To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
- To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
- To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

Meaning of 'drown' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . drown [ v]
Meaning (1):
- kill by submerging in water
Example in sentence:
  • He drowned the kittens
Meaning (2):
- cover completely or make imperceptible
Example in sentence:
  • I was drowned in work;
  • The noise drowned out her speech
Meaning (3):
- get rid of as if by submerging
Example in sentence:
  • She drowned her trouble in alcohol
Meaning (4):
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
Example in sentence:
  • The child drowned in the lake
Meaning (5):
- be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
Example in sentence:
  • the divers saved the drowning child
Meaning (6):
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
Example in sentence:
  • the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy

Nearby Words:

drock drofland drogher drogman drogoman drogue droh droil droit droitural

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