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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
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]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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4. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary |
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.
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Thesaurus Results for drown:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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