Definition of drown

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Drown (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

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Asphyxy :: Asphyxy (n.) Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases..
Submetallic :: Submersion (n.) The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned..
Drown :: Drown (v. i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Drown :: Drown (v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
Kelpy :: Kelpy (n.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc..
Indrench :: Indrench (v. t.) To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown.
Drown :: Drown (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
Life-preserver :: Life-preserver (n.) An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water..
Bottle :: Bottle (n.) Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle..
Aventure :: Aventure (n.) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire..
Drenche :: Drenche (v. t. & i.) To drown.
Dreint :: Dreint () p. p. of Drench to drown.
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Dreynt :: Dreynt () p. p., of Drench to drown..
Darlingtonia :: Darlingtonia (n.) A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves..
Submersion :: Submersion (n.) The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning..
Drent :: Drent (p. p.) Drenched; drowned.
Demersion :: Demersion (n.) The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.
Drownage :: Drownage (n.) The act of drowning.
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