drown

To drown is to completely cover, or to die by inhaling water or another liquid.

(verb)

An example of drown is to pour too much dressing on a salad.
An example of drown is to be unable to hear a conversation as an airplane passes overhead, it “drowns out” your words.
An example of drown is to have a cramp while swimming and to die because you are not able to get back to the surface for air.

The definition of drown is to forget everything by emerging yourself in another task or by drinking alcohol.

(verb)

An example of to drown is to go to a bar and drink to forget that you lost your job; “to drown your sorrows.”

See drown in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb

to die by suffocation in water or other liquid

Origin: ME drounen, prob. < var. of ON drukna, drown, akin to OE druncnian, to become drunk, be drowned < druncen, pp. of drincan, drink

transitive verb

See drown in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb drowned, drown·ing, drowns

verb, transitive

To kill by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid.
To drench thoroughly or cover with or as if with a liquid.
To deaden one's awareness of; blot out: people who drowned their troubles in drink.
To muffle or mask (a sound) by a louder sound: screams that were drowned out by the passing train.

verb, intransitive

To die by suffocating in water or another liquid.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English drounen

Origin: , probably of Scandinavian origin; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots

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