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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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. Alan Watts:

   To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

2. Elizabeth Warren:

   For decades, the leaders of both parties preached the gospel that free trade was a rising tide that would lift all boats, great rhetoric -- except that the trade deals they negotiated mainly lifted the yachts -- and threw millions of working Americans overboard to drown.

3. Sarah Whitey:

   The only thing I was thinking of was, I don't want my son to drown, I don't want my son to drown. I just wanted to keep him up, so I just held onto that pram as long as I could.

4. Melissa Flournoy:

   It is offensive that Governor Bobby Jindal continues to play political games with women’s health care, governor Jindal can not drown out the voices of Louisianans who want access to STI testing, birth control, and lifesaving cancer screenings. We are not going anywhere.

5. The IEA:

   Although we do not formally forecast OPEC oil production, in a scenario whereby Iran adds 600,000 bpd to the market by mid-year and other members maintain current output, global oil supply could exceed demand by 1.5 million bpd in the first half of 2016, while the pace of stock-building eases in the second half of the year as supply from non-OPEC producers falls, unless something changes, the oil market could drown in over-supply. So the answer to our question is an emphatic yes. It could go lower.

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