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Word: drown (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Verb:

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

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