Drown
Drown , intransitive verb
[Old English drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, Anglo-Saxon druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, from druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Methought, what pain it was to drown.
Drown , transitive verb
1.
To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
They drown the land.
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.
My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
Collocations (1)
To drown up , to swallow up. [Obsolete] — Holland