Verb

(head)

(drown)

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

(en verb)

(dialectal) drown

* {{quote-book, year=1876, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="I know now!" exclaimed Tom; "somebody's drownded !" }}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=M. Leonora Eyles, title=Captivity, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Next time yous come along we'll have had a drop o' rain, an' then you can drownd yourselfs if you want to," said the stationmaster. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=One of his feete unwares from him did slide, That downe hee fell into the deepe abisse, 545 Where drownd with him is all his earthlie blisse. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1676, author=Izaak Walton, title=The Compleat Angler, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found, As if the world were in deep waters drownd . }}