drown
    v 1: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in
         work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: submerge,
         drown, overwhelm]
    2: get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in
       alcohol"
    3: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the
       lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
    4: kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
    5: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was
       swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: swim, drown]

Drown \Drown\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Drowning.] [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen,
   druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk,
   fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]
   To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
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         Methought, what pain it was to drown.    --Shak.
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Drown \Drown\, v. t.
   1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They
      drown the land." --Dryden.
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   2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
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   3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said
      especially of sound.
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            Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. --Sir
                                                  J. Davies.
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            My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
                                                  --Addison.
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   To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] --Holland.
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Drown
   (Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital
   punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews
   in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6.