drown
IPA: drˈaʊn
noun
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
- (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
- (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
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Examples of "drown" in Sentences
- A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
- The ceremonies of urbanity are drowned.
- But it is drowning in its own gravitas.
- The village was drowned in the reservoir.
- The priest drowned feather into holy water for ceremony.
- The autopsy confirmed that drowning was the cause of death.
- A torrent of water envelopes the city and drowns the horde.
- Some drowned while others froze to death in the frigid river.
- The waters cover the earth, and all maleficent beings are drowned.
- People, who have an experience of drowning, suffer a surfeit of water.