GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found 2 definitions

1.       
   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.
   1913 Webster
   Methought, what pain it was to drown.
   Shak.
   
   1913 Webster
   
         
       

2.       
   Drown, v. t.
   To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. “They drown the land.” 
   Dryden.
   
   1913 Webster
   To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
   1913 Webster
   To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
   1913 Webster
   Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned.
   Sir J. Davies.
   
   1913 Webster
   My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
   Addison.
   
   1913 Webster
   To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.]
   Holland.
   
   1913 Webster