Meaning of DROWN
| Pronunciation: | | drawn
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [v] die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
- [v] get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
- [v] kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
- [v] cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
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| | Synonyms: | | overwhelm, submerge |
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| | See Also: | | cover, decease, die, do away with, drown out, eliminate, exit, expire, get rid of, go, kill, pass, pass away, perish, spread over | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
Methought, what pain it was to drown. --Shak.
\Drown\, v. t.
1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. ``They
drown the land.'' --Dryden.
2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said
especially of sound.
Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. --Sir
J. Davies.
My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
--Addison.
{To drown up}, to swallow up. [Obs.] --Holland.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | (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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| | Related Terms: | | asphyxiate, baptize, be clobbered, be felled, be killed, be poleaxed, be staggered, be stricken, bottle up, burke, bury, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, come to grief, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, damp down, deluge, dip, douse, drench, duck, dunk, engulf, extinguish, famish, float, flood, flow on, founder, gag, garrote, have a mishap, hold down, immerge, immerse, inundate, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, knock over, merge, muzzle, OD, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge in water, pour on, pour water on, prostrate, put down, quash, quell, quench, rain, repress, run aground, shut down on, silence, sink, sit down on, sit on, sluice, smash, smother, soak, sop, souse, squash, squelch, stanch, starve, stifle, stop the breath, strangle, stultify, subdue, submerge, submerse, suffer a misfortune, suffocate, suppress, swamp, throttle, wet, whelm |
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