Definitions for drown
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. submerge, drown, overwhelm(verb)

   cover completely or make imperceptible

   "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"

2. drown(verb)

   get rid of as if by submerging

   "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

3. drown(verb)

   die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating

   "The child drowned in the lake"

4. drown(verb)

   kill by submerging in water

   "He drowned the kittens"

5. swim, drown(verb)

   be covered with or submerged in a liquid

   "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drown(Verb)

   To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.

   Etymology: Origin uncertain.

2. drown(Verb)

   To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

   Etymology: Origin uncertain.

3. drown(Verb)

   To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

   Etymology: Origin uncertain.

4. drown(Verb)

   To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out"

   Etymology: Origin uncertain.

5. drown(Verb)

   To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass

   The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.

   Etymology: Origin uncertain.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drown(verb)

   to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water

   Etymology: [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]

2. Drown(verb)

   to overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate

   Etymology: [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]

3. Drown(verb)

   to deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid

   Etymology: [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]

4. Drown(verb)

   to overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound

   Etymology: [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drown

   drown, v.t. to drench or sink in water: to kill by placing under water: to overpower: to extinguish.—v.t. to be suffocated in water. [A.S. druncnian, to drown—druncen, pa.p. of drincan, to drink. See Drench.]

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'drown' in Verbs Frequency: #901

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1. n-word

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of drown in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of drown in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of drown in a Sentence

1. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Let me fly with the wings of love or let me drown and die in the love.

2. John Alejandro King:

   You don't drink to drown your sorrows, you drink to give them mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

3. Piet Chielens:

   You drown in your own lungs.

4. Teddy Goff:

   It wasn't as if we all kind of retreated into a bunker to drown our sorrows or anything like that, in the midst of that day, discovering that we were really rebuilding a list virtually from scratch, it was a realization that there was going to be a tough road ahead.

5. Ken Peters:

   At first they tried to drown us out with their own sound and their own protesters, but we kept singing, praying and praising God under our First Amendment rights of assembly and freedom of religion.

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