Drown

Quick meaning: Drown is a verb meaning (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

Meaning

(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
2. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
3. (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
4. (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

Example Sentences

When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.

We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.

He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.

The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.

Word Forms

• drowns
• drowning
• drowned

Synonyms for drown

Depending on context, synonyms include noyade, flood, inundate, drench, submerge, overwhelm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include submerge, overwhelm, plunge, sink, shed, flow.

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