Verb

(en verb)

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

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

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out".

* Sir J. Davies

most men being in sensual pleasures drowned

* Addison

My private voice is drowned amid the senate.

To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.

''The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.

Verb

(head)

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