drown
- Verb. (intransitive) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
- Verb. (transitive) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
- Verb. (transitive) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
- Verb. (transitive) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out".
- Verb. (transitive) To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.
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