drown : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drown	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for drown
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drown v cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" Synonym(s): submerge, drown, overwhelm get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol" die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake" kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens" be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" Synonym(s): swim, drown
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drown \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. Methought, what pain it was to drown. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drown \Drown\, v. t. 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. [bd]They drown the land.[b8] --Dryden. 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. 3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. --Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. --Addison. {To drown up}, to swallow up. [Obs.] --Holland.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Drown (Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6.