DROWN

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

2.
v.

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." Dryden.

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.

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