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Definitions for drown
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Princeton's WordNet
submerge, drown, overwhelmverb
cover completely or make imperceptible
"I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
drownverb
get rid of as if by submerging
"She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
drownverb
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
"The child drowned in the lake"
drownverb
kill by submerging in water
"He drowned the kittens"
swim, drownverb
be covered with or submerged in a liquid
"the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
Wiktionary
drownverb
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
drownverb
To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
drownverb
To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
drownverb
To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out"
drownverb
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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Drownverb
Etymology: from drunden, below, German, Skinner, from druncnian , Saxon, Mr. Lye.
They would soon drown those that refused to swim down the popular stream. Charles I .
When of God’s image only eight he found
Snatch’d from the wat’ry grave, and sav’d from nations drown’d. Matthew Prior.Or so much as it needs
To dew the sovereign flower, and drown the weeds. William Shakespeare.Galleys might be drowned in the harbour with the great ordnance, before they could be rigged. Richard Knolles, History.
Betwixt the prince and parliament we stand,
The barriers of the state on either hand:
May neither overflow, for then they drown the land. Dry.Most men being in sensual pleasures drown’d,
It seems their souls but in their senses are. Davies.Who cometh next will not follow that course, however good, which his predecessors held, for doubt to have his doings drowned in another man’s praise. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.
To think that the brightness of the sun’s body above doth drown our discerning of the lesser lights, is a popular errour. Henry Wotton, Architecture.
My private voice is drown’d amid’ the senate. Joseph Addison, Cato.
Some aged man, who lives this act to see,
And who in former times remember’d me,
May say, the son, in fortitude and fame,
Outgoes the mark, and drowns his father’s name. Dryden.To Drownverb
To be suffocated in the waters.
There be, that keep them out of fire, and yet was never burned; that beware of water, and yet was never nigh drowning. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.
Methought what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of waters in my ears!
What sights of ugly death within mine eyes! William Shakespeare, R. III.
Wikipedia
drown
The DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption) attack is a cross-protocol security bug that attacks servers supporting modern SSLv3/TLS protocol suites by using their support for the obsolete, insecure, SSL v2 protocol to leverage an attack on connections using up-to-date protocols that would otherwise be secure. DROWN can affect all types of servers that offer services encrypted with SSLv3/TLS yet still support SSLv2, provided they share the same public key credentials between the two protocols. Additionally, if the same public key certificate is used on a different server that supports SSLv2, the TLS server is also vulnerable due to the SSLv2 server leaking key information that can be used against the TLS server.Full details of DROWN were announced in March 2016, along with a patch that disables SSLv2 in OpenSSL; the vulnerability was assigned the ID CVE-2016-0800. The patch alone will not be sufficient to mitigate the attack if the certificate can be found on another SSLv2 host. The only viable countermeasure is to disable SSLv2 on all servers. The researchers estimated that 33% of all HTTPS sites were affected by this vulnerability as of March 1, 2016.
Webster Dictionary
Drownverb
to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water
Drownverb
to overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate
Drownverb
to deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid
Drownverb
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
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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Examples of drown in a Sentence
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Thus the wetlands basically drown.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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.
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.
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- غرقArabic
- заливам, удавям се, давя се, заглушавам, потапям, давяBulgarian
- submergir, ofegarCatalan, Valencian
- přehlušit, potopit, utopitCzech
- überwältigen, ertränken, ertrinkenGerman
- πνίγομαι, πνίγωGreek
- droniEsperanto
- ahogar, ahogarseSpanish
- peittää, hukuttautua, hukkua, hukuttaa, upottaaFinnish
- noyerFrench
- bàthScottish Gaelic
- טבעHebrew
- fulladHungarian
- կործանելArmenian
- annegare, coprire, affogare, sommergereItalian
- 溺れる, 溺死, 圧倒, 水死, 溺らすJapanese
- 물에 뼈져 죽다Korean
- skęsti, grimztiLithuanian
- slīktLatvian
- verdrinken, verzuipen, overspoelen, overweldigenDutch
- utopić, tonąćPolish
- afogar-sePortuguese
- înecaRomanian
- тонуть, заглушить, затопить, затоплять, потонуть, заглушать, утонуть, топить, утопитьRussian
- dränka, drunknaSwedish
- 淹Chinese
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