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Drown vs Aventure - What's the difference?

drown | aventure |

As a verb drown

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

As a noun aventure is

accident; chance; adventure.

drown

English

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.

    Derived terms

    * drowned * drowner * drowning * drown one's sorrows * drown out

    Synonyms

    * (overwhelm) flood

    References

    aventure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
  • (obsolete) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
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