Drown

What do we mean by drown?

To kill by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid. intransitive verb

To drench thoroughly or cover with or as if with a liquid. intransitive verb

To deaden one's awareness of; blot out. intransitive verb

To muffle or mask (a sound) by a louder sound. intransitive verb

To die by suffocating in water or another liquid. intransitive verb

(drown (one's) sorrow/sorrows) To try to forget one's troubles by drinking alcohol. idiom

To be suffocated by immersion in water or other liquid.

To suffocate by immersion in water or other liquid; hence, to destroy, extinguish, or ruin by or as if by submersion.

To overflow; inundate: as, to drown land.

Figuratively, to plunge deeply; submerge; overwhelm: as, to drown remorse in sensual pleasure.

In physical geography, to submerge beneath the waters of a lake or ocean: said of a valley that is thus converted into a bay by a relative change of land- and water-level. See drowned stream.

In tobacco culture, to injure by long-continued rain followed by warm sunshine. The tobacco soon wilts under these conditions. Also called scald.

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. intransitive verb

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. transitive verb

To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. transitive verb

To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. transitive verb

To swallow up. transitive verb

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation. verb

To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. verb

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. verb

To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

Words that are spelled similarly to drown:
drown, down, brown, crown, frown, drawn, rown, grown, drow, droon, drows.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word drown:
sorrows, bathtub, drowning, sorrow, tears, rescued, drowned, swim, sink, herself, mick, washed, nets, saved, underwater, pool, unconscious, noise, save, tide, rescue, flood, alcohol, burn, boat, drink, bath, remember, escape, cat, dies, returns, suicide, baby, sea, sees, waters, sleep, die, himself, accident, arrive, fishing, pulled, water, ocean, swimming, tells, shore, alive.

Words that rhyme with drown:
down, around, brown, town, noun, crown, breakdown, frown, gown, renown, rundown, clown, put down, meltdown, downtown, drawdown, break down, hometown, showdown, lockdown, facedown, shutdown, lowdown, crackdown, playground, uptown, run-down, shakedown, run down, lown, hoedown, countdown, touchdown, lay down, slowdown, go down, turn down, let down, runaround, take down, sundown, come down, get down, letdown, bring down, hunker down, shantytown, pin down, clampdown, bear down, knockdown, shut down, step down, back down, godown, browne, markdown, turndown, cut down, hands down, lie down, knock down, jamestown, boomtown, chinatown, settle down, tear down, comedown, midtown, bog down, drop down, common noun, tinseltown, beat down, motown, slow down, rub down, set down, calm down, write down, strike down, track down, nail down, georgetown, boil down, dress down, proper noun, pull down, tie down, crosstown, water down, crack down, clamp down, putdown, fall down, weigh down, wear down, hold down, jot down, play down.

Adjectives that are often used to describe drown:
many, likely, other, few, better, near, late, afraid, dark, little, deep, azure, old, nigh, several, more.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective drown:
proofing, out, proof, victim.

Consonant match to drown:
drone, drain, drawn, drane, drein, draine, draughn.

Words that sound like drown:
drown, drawn, drain, drone, dren, duran, drin, drane, draine, dran, drehen, drein, darrain, drom, down, dream, drum, drowned, tron, during, dram, drome, durham, drowns, drem, drow, drough, dern, dring, downe, drumm, durn, drang, drime, drim, drowner, dirham, droom, drung, dearn, dreng, turon, drn, drau, train, terrain, tran, trun, trin, trone, trine, treen, trane, tren, trinh, troon, tarun, torain, turan, trein, trans-, dawn, draw, don, dion, deon, dwan, deion, dione, dionne, donn, daan, daron, daun, doiron, dahn, dawne, dohn, draugh, drawee, dhahran, draw in, drew on, draughon, draw on, dry eye, dan, dane, darin, dain, daren, dann, daine, adriene, adren, daran, arawn, audran, d-town, dahin.