Defenition of the word drown
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Defenition of the word drown
- To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by suffocation in water.
- To kill by immersion in water or other liquid.
- die by drowning in water; "The child drowned in the lake"
- get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
- kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
- cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
- die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
- get rid of as if by submerging
- kill by submerging in water
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
Synonyms for the word drown
Similar words in the drown
Hypernyms for the word drown
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- be
- buy the farm
- cash in one's chips
- choke
- conk
- cover
- croak
- decease
- die
- do away with
- drop dead
- eliminate
- exit
- expire
- extinguish
- get rid of
- give-up the ghost
- go
- kick the bucket
- kill
- pass
- pass away
- perish
- pop off
- snuff it
- spread over
- surname
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