DROWN, verb transitive 1. Literally, to overwhelm in water; an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid; applied to animals; also, to suspend animation by submersion. 2. To overwhelm in water; as, to drown weeds. 3. To overflow; to deluge; to inundate; as, to drown land. 4. To immerse; to plunge and lose; to overwhelm; as, to drown ones self in sensual pleasure. 5. To overwhelm; to overpower. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. DROWN, verb intransitive To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought what pain it was to drown
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI