Definitions for drown
draʊndrown

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. submerge, drown, overwhelmverb

   cover completely or make imperceptible

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

2. drownverb

   get rid of as if by submerging

   "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

3. drownverb

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

   "The child drowned in the lake"

4. drownverb

   kill by submerging in water

   "He drowned the kittens"

5. swim, drownverb

   be covered with or submerged in a liquid

   "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drownverb

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

2. drownverb

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

3. drownverb

   To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

4. drownverb

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

5. 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.

6. Etymology: Origin uncertain.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Drownverb

   Etymology: from drunden, below, German, Skinner, from druncnian , Saxon, Mr. Lye.

   1. To suffocate in water.

   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.

   2. To overwhelm in water.

   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.

   3. To overflow; to bury in an inundation; to deluge.

   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.

   4. To immerge; to lose in any thing.

   Most men being in sensual pleasures drown’d,
   It seems their souls but in their senses are. Davies.

   5. To lose in something that overpowers or covers.

   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.

2. 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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

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1. drown

   Drown is a term used when a person, animal, or object is submerged in a liquid (most commonly water) to the point of death or damage, typically due to an inability to breathe or function under the liquid. This can happen either by accident or intentionally. It can also be used metaphorically to describe excessive exposure or an overwhelming amount.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drownverb

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

2. Drownverb

   to overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate

3. Drownverb

   to deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid

4. Drownverb

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

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

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DROWN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Drown is ranked #7684 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Drown surname appeared 4,321 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Drown.
   
   73.6% or 3,181 total occurrences were White.
   20.8% or 899 total occurrences were Black.
   2.3% or 103 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.2% or 96 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 29 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.3% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Die
   • Get Rid Of
   • Kill

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

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

Anagrams for drown »

1. n-word

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1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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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. Jen Dziuvenis:

   I had to just keep shooting while trying not to drown my camera in tears, i ’m so grateful that I was able to capture these photos for them and that I was able to do this moment justice.

2. 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.

3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

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

4. Cesare Beccaria:

   False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

5. Melissa Ilardo:

   Free diving is extremely dangerous, and so even highly trained free divers often die because they lose consciousness on ascent and they drown, if that's happening over thousands of years, then the people who are surviving are those that are carrying the genes that give them an advantage.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=drown
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Drown
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=drown
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drown
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drown
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=drown
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html