drown

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

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